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[capri0mni]

(A fully detailed description can be found by clicking through to the flick'r page)



Total word count: 50,663.

No, technically, it's not actually a novel, strictly speaking, 'cause I never got out of chapter one, plot-wise. But it served its purpose admirably, of giving me an escape and a mental exercise to help me deal with stress. And it allowed me to really think deeply about what I think is actually my default worldview, but I've never actually put it into words before.

And I am still, after all this, still fond of my central characters. Which has never happened before. So that's a win, too.

I know that I also owe my friends an Art Garden report. And, before midnight tonight, I need to post my next Plato's Nightmare entry, so I can keep up my promise of having at least one post a month.

But first: I went shopping today, and I bought myself an extra dark bitter sweet chocolate bar, so I can have something to celebrate my win with.

So I will break off a couple of squares of that, and enjoy them, right now.

Comments

[pebblerocker]

Winner! You achieved something useful even if it's not exactly a story right now -- and there's a chance you could do more if you don't hate the characters :)

[capri0mni]

Just so. I realized, at around word #49,877 that my actual story/ies were really there, all along, if only I start over, from the beginning, but just tell the story from each of the three points of view for every one who was not my chosen P.O.V. character...

[spiralsheep]

\o/

[capri0mni]

IKR?!

Especially since I did it, not in 30 days, but in 26 -- 25 1/2 (since I started in the afternoon, instead of at the stroke of midnight, as usual)