Progress and Inspiration (with too many ellipses)

So last summer I...
     ... spent a lot of time in my head, world building
     ... rationalized time spend reading as time preparing to write (lots of Flanagan)
     ... hashed out quite a bit of my new story's plot, mostly while driving
     ... revised the 6000 or so words I had written in February/March
     ... researched castles by visiting British castles and
     ... did not write a word of actual story.

Then this happened...

Which looked like this...

And this...

And this...

Which looked like this...

And I realized I would rather be on the stage than in the crowd.