( on 56k and a finished story. )

[gleans]

Thank you. We should wait before you think about sending me anywhere again, though, juuuust until I know where my head is after all that. Not to mention we need a fuckin' break from each other, am I right? Gotta love November, the writing equivalent of being stuck in a dorm room with a crazy motherfucker (ha, no, two crazy motherfuckers) for thirty days.

Hey! Good pullthrough, though. Shit was crazy. I'm proud of you. And... I dunno about you, but I'm pretty okay with that ending. Especially since we got a song out of it, like, three weeks before you even wrote it. That's some kinda foresight right there, man.

Oh yeah, and you better ask J and Courtney why the hell I didn't get a gift exchange buddy. What is this bullcrap? I'm so offended right now. Who denies a guy of his right to a potentially hilarious and/or awkward obligation to get a friend/stranger/acquaintance a Christmas present? And get something probably totally fucking weird in return? Come on, guys!

Galen

Comments

[chimerics]

Is this about that yearly writing competition thing? I thought it was only 40k? Or was it 100k words?

How many pages does that make?

[gleans]

Sure is. It's fifty thousand, officially, but people go over all the time.

Uhh... about a hundred and twenty five? Guess it depends on formatting.

[chimerics]

I guess you can get carried away if you're really enjoying the story.

That's actually pretty impressive? You even got a song out of it, apparently.

[gleans]

Yeah, totally! I mean, we were dead set on actually finishing the story, and that day happened to have a lot of bus and cafe time, so... carried away is a good word for it. Or, y'know, just stubborn as hell.

Right? This year was all-around a pretty good run, I think. This is the third one I've had to survive through... kiiiinda hoping it's my last, but. Payoff's pretty good.

[chimerics]

I wish my mun had as much time to write. Or at least some consistence...

Three!? [ Way to make a baby OC feel like a newcomer. ]

[gleans]

Pffff, time. NaNo's all about not having time, that's why most of my story ended up done on buses to class. Make time, dude, you'll dig up that consistence later.

Aha, yeah. [ He is sorry! Granted, he still feels like a baby OC, sometimes, too. ] If it makes you feel any better, it was like a year before I started having, like... an actual purpose in life besides being The Musician Character, and it's only been a year since then, so. Trust me, it flies right the fuck by.

[chimerics]

That's the idea. [ She's not confident at all, nope. ]

Aw man, right now I'm just trying not to end up being That Girl Who Is Also The McGuffin. I think my "life" is not going that way but it's too easy to go for the tried and true.

Musicians are pretty cool though.

[gleans]

Naaaah, I guarantee that if your writer sticks with you for a while, starts doing that thing where they wanna know everything about you, you'll be way more than that.

Ha, thanks! It's a cool job. I'm Galen, by the way.

[chimerics]

Haha, yeah, I guess that's what we're going to get at soon. Making sure all the little details fit and everything. Feels like a lot of interesting writing, that's for sure.

I was supposed to study something related to art but- well, things happened. I'm Grace, nice to meet you.

[gleans]

Nice to meet you too. What were you gonna study?

[chimerics]

Painting. I mean, I guess I had made my mind, pretty much.

[gleans]

Oh, that's cool, though. I'm sorry it didn't work out. Not that that can really keep you from painting, I guess.

[chimerics]

Yeah, you know, maybe when/if things calm down. One has to have something to look after, right? And I guess I've always been kind of an amateurish artist so it's not like I'm just going to stop.

[gleans]

Exactly. Like, I didn't even go to school for music, I went for music business and radio, but I kept at it, cuz it's what I love. I think that's the more important thing; never giving something like that up for anything.

[chimerics]

I think I'm going to write that one down, just in case.