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Usually I don't post partially complete stories, but this time I made an exception. I have two more chapters of this one sketched out in my head, but I also have three other stories waking me up at night, demanding my attention. I'll let you, dear readers, decide if I should finish this one. If you choose to read it, please give it an honest rating, and of course, comments are always welcome.
Now that I am using the paid version of Grammarly, just as an experiment, I get a "report card" each week. Here are the results for the last seven days:
I am more productive than 96% of other users.
I am more accurate than 89% yada, yada.
I use more unique words than 90%, etc. (I bet I know what a lot of those words are).
What all that tells me is that maybe I don't need Grammarly. I'll give it another week, but I'm leaning strongly toward canceling. I figure I've managed to post 40-some-odd stories here before I even heard of it, so I may go back to self-editing. I'm not trying to write the great American novel, or even the so-so American novel, just some dirty stories.
Found another interesting comment from C. Robert Cargill on Bluesky this morning. I want to make a poster of this one and hang it over my writing desk.
"Stop worrying that the pages aren't good enough. You'll make them good enough when you edit. Sometimes you have to see the words on the page before you know exactly what it is supposed to be.
The right words often only come after the wrong words."
Found on Robert Cargill's thread on Bluesky
The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.
An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.
So finish the thing
Thanks to everyone (and there was a heck of a lot of you) who gave me the answer to this mystery. It showed up as a Random story on the homepage.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled reading.
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