The last twenty-or-so pages I’ve been editing, I simply cannot cannot cannot look at them anymore. Normally, when I talk about clawing my eyes out, it is because I have a migraine and I feel that clawing my eyes out would not only be a distraction, but less painful. But I want to claw my eyes out rather than keep reading these same twenty-four pages.

I remember when I loved my faerie story, but now I’m like the Belle and Sebastian song and I don’t love anyone.

So the next section is here. It starts on 98 in the file. I also redid the chapter numbering but that affects no one really.

Limited time, as always, the Ship of Theseus that my faerie story has become: yoink! I’ll post the next bit in a little while, so if you missed this part, you’re going to have to wait until then.

Five pages of my faerie story. I read you again and again and again and again. I give you space and then come back to you. I labour over you for hours. I erase you all and start from scratch. I fiddle and tinker slightly with your words and punctuation marks and spend hours on thesaurus.com. To what avail? I fear you have defeated me, opening pages of Chapter Five. If I quit my faerie story, it will be because of you.

I want to write a novel but I fear I don’t know how.

That’s right.

via GIPHY

I got chapter four done. Starts on page 70. Limited time, as always.

Sad trombone. You missed it. Check back soon to read Chapter Five or click those three horizontal lines up there ^^^ on the top of the page and sign up for email updates.

(There will be an epub preview sometime in the future. Maybe before the universe implodes, maybe not.)

Summer is the only time I can be a full-time writer, since Tesfa is in camp from eight to four. Even then, she only has four weeks of camp. But full time writing it is, and so I finally got through my deep read of Chapter Three. As was said by one of my academic siblings: Limited time only! [Don’t be] a sucker!.

Chapter Three starts on page 49 of the PDF file for those who have been following along. For any new joiners, I’d start at page one.

Posted probably until the end of the weekend, then taken down.

Time’s up!