Gooooooooooooooal! Gooooooooooooooooal!!

It’s DONE! FINALLY.

Weighing in at 92 pages (10 point, when it’s brought up to submission format size of 12, it’ll probably break 100) and just a little over 30,000 words, my unicorn story, suckily titled “Alicorn” was finished as of 11:30 am today.

I REFUSE to let the next Jen story get this out of control. The last thing I need is for a supposed anthology to be bigger than my actual novels.

There were a few unexpected, little twists towards the end, but nothing that made the main thrust of the story do a 180, so it’s all still good. And I just got in a very belated review from a Japanese permanent resident who told me that my WWII Nagasaki era story was more or less dead on (A few linguistic discrepancies notwithstanding) and he complimented me on my studied rendering of Japanese language structure to English. He thinks I must have studied the Japanese language to have gotten the nuance so eloquently. I still have to tell him that I ripped it all off from Akira and Miyazaki sub-titling jobs…

And why, WHY do I suck at titles?!?

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Too late. Must sleep. ‘Night…