I've been writing for the last

12?

13 hours.

For a contest whose deadline has since passed.

And I'm still not finished.

11,076 words in one sitting

(well, two, if you count the time I spent shoving pizza in my food hole after writing the first 2k or so)

I must rest now.

But I swear to you, I will have it posted by the end of tomorrow.

I was observing a member of the target demographic playing Minecraft the other day. Apparently she had recently learned of the bucket capability, which allows one to transport water (or lava) and dump it where desired. I saw that she had dug a hole, into which a villager had fallen, and was dumping water into it. I asked her:

"Are you trying to drown that guy?"

To which she replied, "Yeah," as if it were obvious.

I said, "Don't drown him, that's really mean."

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In 5 or so years of writing, Sugar and Spice is both the longest and probably the best story I've managed to finish so far. If nothing else, it's absolutely a story that has the most things I like about it, which is particularly weird given that it's just... not the sort of story I tend to write. Side-character, non-Princess romance? OCs? Comedy?!

I know. I must have fallen ill, or something.

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