For how short my stories are, it takes for-freaking-ever to complete them. Part of that can't be helped, since I have a life outside writing these stories. But part of it totally is my fault, because (1) I wait until I'm in a rather particular mood before I try to write these, and (2) I edit my stuff to a degree bordering on obsessive. Reread, revise, reread, revise... until I decide to publish more out of boredom with my own prose than out of certainty that it's finished.

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