Well, sounds like we got a little bit of everything here!
For my part, I’ve loved the break from Wonderland Noir. I’ve put so much time into refining the prose and emotional evocation for that project, and it feels nice to work on something that isn’t so close to me and with less ‘baggage’ surrounding it. If that makes sense.
I’m closing in on 10k words. This will definitely be my most accessible story by a huge margin, though still very weird. I just wrote a really fun scene where an AI celebrates you becoming employee of the month by dressing as an archpriest in company colors and throwing confetti made from final notices and legal pads everywhere. And it got you a cake. (You’re the last human still walking on earth. Everyone else has entered a full dive vr world)