No, it was really an accident. I started writing a short story based on an image, and it got away from me. I suppose in hindsight, perhaps I should have realized it had little chance of being a short story. It was based on the idea of a ship being caught in the time dilation field of a black hole. I should have guessed that it would take a while for the character to deal with all the issues. I likely even could have gone on a lot longer than I did, but I wanted to get on to the rest of the story.