Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon

Roger's viewpoint in this one was was different than it usually is, because of the particular conflict that he's dealing with. If I have trouble with writing one, I usually figure it's not the right viewpoint and I switch to something else. Also during that seven years we had two grandchildren, so that takes up a little bit of your time. That's 45 months I was engaged in doing that as well as everything else that I do. But that's nine months at a time, and we've done five seasons in that time. It doesn't happen all the time, just during the filming season. So that takes up a little more of my time than when that's not happening. This means that there's just a lot of really interesting stuff to look at. Then they send me the edited, completed episodes, and those too go through three or four even five different versions before they settle on what they think is the final one. Also, they send me all the new dailies, which means five days a week, they send me about an hour and a half of really fascinating film clips of the dailies that they've shot that day. I'm a consultant on the show, which means that they show me everything and invite my comment on it, which means while they're filming, I get all of the scripts and eight iterations or so of each script as they come in, and I read them all. The other thing was that the show started right when the eighth book was published. In my own defense, I must note that I wrote four other books during this time period, which I don't normally do.

Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon