grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

The goal was supposed to be 80K. Not 170K-and-let's-hope-enough-edits-will-get-it-to-120K.

Maybe if I just get rid of the plot.

That might work. Would that work? It'd sure make the story a lot shorter. Possibly rather boring as well, but at least it would be a manageable-sized boring.

BWAH.

Okay, there's a plus side to writing I didn't consider, in that a quick look won't... well, I mean, what if you're a comic-illustrator and your mac goes south? Worse, you're like Masara Minase and your comics are, uhm, of an adult nature?

Yes, I really did laugh for about five minutes over this.

(note: link is totally SFW.)