I wrote -18,000 words today.

No seriously. I read Italo Calvino’s essay on Quickness. Got very excited, cut 20,000 words out of Unkillable. (which will make it stronger, shorter and allow me to finish it faster.) Then I wrote 2000 more words. 2000-20,000 = -18,000.

At this rate I’l have no story at all by the end of the week and I’ll be free to move on to another project.

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