I feel like I've just brought my boat out of the icepack. I finally cleared the lost data section and the rewrite jam that was plaguing me and have once again moved into new territory. Not that I'm moving all that quickly.
Plus, I've allowed myself to become distracted by attempts at legitimate cover art for my various stories, using several AI assistants. My own graphics skills don't rate being called skills. One nice thing about AI: it is never annoyed by my ineptitude nor does it run out of patience explaining things to me---over and over again. And it doesn't get all huffy if I just blow things off so I can watch a movie. If I'd had teachers like that in college, I'd have probably become a rocket surgeon.