10k racewalk

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my Incipient Novel or whatever you want to call it is over 10,000 words long at the moment. I was thinking that's the longest continuous thing I've ever written, but then I checked and the Other Novel that I tried to write a long time ago had 18,000 words when I stopped, but it was far more disjointed and overall bad than the current one. I've never had 10,000 words of something I was willing to show to another person, even just one person.

I'm also in the process of transcribing the fragments of it that are in different notebooks, because it has happened to me that a notebook got lost, and with it whatever I had been attempting to work on. There's 4k words in that file, and I couldn't really guess how much I haven't typed yet. (This is my usual process, I write down ideas on paper, in whatever order they come to me, and then sit at the computer with that propped in front of me and pick out the non-stupid parts and put them in order.)

The only reason it matters to me is that I'm bad at sticking with things. I get bored and don't finish. I'm trying to figure out what it takes to see something through to the end.

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I'm trying to figure out what it takes to see something through to the end.

I pondered this for awhile and came up with several Deep and Meaningful answers, but I think all has to do with your own interest in it. I think the fact that it's already over ten thousaaaaaaaaaand is probably a good indicator of interest!

aha, see, it's very likely that I would lose a notebook. That's why I don't write in them. :P