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I need someone to come over and stop me from writing anymore in this Power chapter which is already 11k words. Just tell me to wrap it up already and move on. So. Much. To. Say. Too. Much. To. Say.
IT IS DONE!!! Ha! Fucking finally. The Power chapter is massive - 12k - and it is time to move onto next chapter. I am dancing around the dinner table aka my writing table.
It was only supposed to be 8k words, like the other chapters so far, but it insisted. Writing a book is like sewing a quilt that is also a jigsaw puzzle. And I am talking out loud or else my head will explode and nothing but unsaid words will spill out.
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