I finished writing my first (and possibly only) draft of Ball Of Yarn today.

It is not long - Less than 5500 words in total, not including the Author’s Note, which is half a page in itself. It is also not exactly a masterpiece. In fact, I am quite certain that some parts of it are just downright bad. But I wasn’t going to let myself edit the thing to death or make it any more complicated than it possibly had to be.

And so, for the first time, I have written a complete story - beginning, middle, and end - outside of an academic setting.

I’m going to relax and focus on some other stuff (eg grad school applications - eek) while I wait for my ‘editor’ to give me some feedback, and hopefully I can fix up those downright-bad scenes a little bit.

I’ll let y’all know when the final draft is ready for general viewing - Probably in about two weeks.