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How I imagined some  of you on December 1st

I currently have an interesting relationship with my muse. I'll have "shower moments" where I get these great ideas from my muse and then when I sit down to write its like:

And then nothing.

Word Count
I'm calling my official NaNoWriMo word count at 12479. It's not great, but it's better than I did last time I tried NaNo. I thought I'd  share a little about how it's distributed.

Sweet Prince Adjacent Story: 7,462 words

One Last Thing Adjacent Story: 4,043 words

FZA: 974 words

FZA was my weakest and I think it's because I have no real grasp of the characters yet. I wanted to go back and re-work the prologue I'd been working on, but it would have been to hard to figure out a new word count for that (although know that I think about it I guess I could have just subtracted the original word count from the new one at the end...). I don't know what will become of this story but I'll chip away at it.

Sweet Prince Novelette ?

I love Lile's novellas because they truly are novellas, short ,complete (and super beautiful) stories that occur in a little less than 10,000 words. The things I've been working on are like 12-13K and feel too compact to be a serial and too long to be a novella. I saw the word novelette thrown around in literary spaces so maybe it's that ? I think for now I'll call them novellas anyway.

What's Next

Anyway, I've been working on two Sweet Prince related things.  One is the NaNo mentioned in the word count above and the other I had been working on for a while and had mostly finished but had to put aside to work on NaNo. I need some time to go back and clean it up and finish it but it will be the next thing I post.

Since I'm not posting it today I thought I'd show the title and reveal a little information.

This serial is from Haley's POV and is about what happens to him after he leaves Ft. Pride and in some ways I'm doing the one thing I once said I'd never do in a comment section.For context, these comments are in  a post where I talked about researching paraphilia to write Maxwell's kink better.
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It's the closest thing I will ever get to writing BDSM so, Lile's not the only one pushing boundaries.

Anyway here is the title:


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At this point Virtue is about 17,000 words and I don't want to say too much about it than I've already said. It's this kind of weird and subversive thing that sort of spilled out of me. It started off being about  one thing but might actually be another thing. I threw caution to the wind and did some character things I was afraid to do so  I'll be interested in your reactions.

Thanks for hanging in there with me, I know I'm always a roller coaster and hopefully by this time next year (internal scream) I'll have done another actual serial. Bye !