Now that the last chapter of last story has been out for more than a week, and that I rested some, I feel ready to examine the results of this writing experiment. I wanted to try committing with something bigger, heavier to write, yet fun; both for the sake of it and to "build up some muscle" for future works.

I'm pleased that I managed to meet this goal, although only barely: the third part was hard to write and I had to simplify and strip some planned things out. To get the full story I wanted, I would have needed one extra chapter and some further editing... but I was reaching my stamina's limits.

Still, it's written, it's a complete story and I'm not _too_ displeased with it (usual perfectionism and harsh inner critic applying here as usual). So, not perfect, but good! It was also a good exercise to better pinpoint what caused me difficulties: basically, when I'm immersed in a story I'm fully in it. I'm working on it non-stop, I'm thinking about it non-stop (including late in the night when I should be sleeping)... I have a hard time letting it go until entire completion, which is probably due in great part to the fact I know I'll start mercilessly judging what I wrote the instant I give myself the time to do so. I need to tame this and discipline myself into a more sustainable pace.

One discouraging point, on the other hand, is that this story was both the one I put most work into and the one I got the least readers' returns about... One likely cause is that novel-sized texts are intimidating, but I'm in the dark about the others. I'll need to toughen up in terms of motivation as well if I want to get better, and not let the (quite normal) silence stop me.