less than ten days and--

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~18,000 words and I’m never going to make it to 20,000 and I hate my story and the world sucks and why did I ever think this was anything remotely resembling a good idea?? (The worst of it is, uh, I do have a complete first draft, I'm just trying to stick it out to make it reach the minimum.)

How’s everyone else doing? Please tell me I'm not alone in my so-near-yet-so-far stage of panic. :D

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My climax (heh) comes too late! I'm sitting here with the draft open, and I'm like, my god, the readers are going to feel like they had to wade through fifty pages of driving around in circles before anything fucking *happens*! And even then not that much exactly happens. (Well, it's not exactly my fault that Wilson's idea of standing up to House consists of yelling at him, psycho-analyzing him a little, and then rolling over and doing exactly what House wants again 5 minutes later.) That's assuming they bother to slog all the way through.

You know, I think I've lost all perspective here. I'm forgetting that as a reader I like nothing better than a really long story. But it's such Hell as a writer. I'm like, no one is going to want to read all this! It takes so much editing! But then how many 25,000 word fics have I read to the end of and gone, "What? That's it?" Many.

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I love a good, long story. Adore it. I can't get into anything that's less than thousand words. Length leads to depth? Which is why I'm so glad with this challenge! More long House fic, please! I want those fifty pages of build-up!

Wilson's idea of standing up to House consists of yelling at him, psycho-analyzing him a little, and then rolling over and doing exactly what House wants again 5 minutes later

/laughs/ Yes! That sounds about right. I say you're on the right track.

(In my case, I'm not sure what my climax is? The mystery gets solved and then has to be undone and-- when I look it over, I think, THIS IS SO SILLY, WHAT WAS I THINKING. And yet I'm glad, because I've had this idea for a while, and now it's out of me.)

It takes so much editing!

TO SAY THE LEAST. Crazy amounts of editing. And if you do your job right, no one will ever know how much work it was.