Chapter 38 is done! This chapter explores the night life of Normal. It has a surly pizza waitress, a sorority girl who claims not to be a zombie, impromptu roller derby matches, free beer for strangers, police bribes, gang brawls, an exploration of how infinite bandwidth can change our lives, and a sex scene. Sex scenes are really hard to write without sounding pornographic, or worse, emulating the cheesy romance novels my mother used to read. You know, all "heaving bosom," and "glistening thigh." I try to be more like "esoteric eye-twinkle," and "throbbing ennui." I think the problem lies with describing a subject so often described in prose. Every literary nipple seems to have been already tweaked.
chapter 38 word count - 2208
new grand total - 93,185
I have reached another useless statistical milestone. My manuscript is on page 200! Hurray for keeping track of numbers! Hurray arbitrary base-ten synchronicity!
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