I looked through my posts from last year, and I was so deep in revisions on The Second Time We Fell in Love, and knew if I stopped for a month, I would never get back to it. So a broke a streak of writing a new story every fall. And revision still took another gazillion years.
Much like knitting, after you've written a book or three, you are sure you have a rhythm and a process and you can just slip and slide your way through the next story. Now I confess, I never actually used a slip and slide. Possibly because I never knew anyone who had one. Also possibly because I watched those kids in that commercial gleefully flinging themselves on the ground to get enough momentum to slide and thought, hmm, that looks like it leaves bruises.
One of the things they don't tell you when you start writing, is that you get used to your brain being in that mode sometimes. You start to yearn for a new shiny story. Not just because the next one will obviously be better because you've perfected your slip and slide now. But also because your brain fills up with characters, and plots, and if you don't let someone of them out, they start rattling the cages.
So if you are writing right now, I salute you. And if you are chilling, or reading, or some combo of the above, I salute you as well.