Chapter 3 is already at 3,600 words, and I'm not even sure I'm halfway through it or not... I said I needed a lot of practice at writing, and one of the biggest things I need to work on is pacing. I'm going to finish this chapter in the next day or two (should probably end up at about 7k-10k words), and then I'll decide if I submit it as one chapter or split it into two. I'd rather leave it intact since the first half is mostly exposition and character building, and I'd prefer my chapters to

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I am not allowed to publish chapters of my story unless I'm sober. I had planned to have 3 or 4 chapters written before I even submitted it to Fimfiction, but then I got drunk and jumped the gun. Got a bit too drunk towards the end of the last chapter and the narrative kinda fell apart. Nothing I can't fix with an edit, but if really want to be a better writer, I should at least take this a tad bit more seriously.

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I've had a story idea rustling about in my head for, oh, the last decade or so. Originally, it was supposed to be a comic book, but as it turns out, when it comes to drawing things, I'm so paranoid about quality that I never actually, uh, draw things. I haven't drawn something for years. (The picture I've used for my one submission here is actually one of the last things I drew, and I never even finished it.) When it comes to writing, that paranoia doesn't exist. I realized a while ago

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