BECAUSE I DO.  IN CASE YOU HADN’T GUESSED, IT’S A FUCKTON.  FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT SPEAK WORD COUNT, THAT IS OVER TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY PAGES, SINGLE SPACED SIZE TWELVE FONT.

Anyway, the point to that is that I just hit 200,000 words in the novel I’m writing (which is my baby and the goddamn bane of my existence) and I feel like I’ve slain a fucking dragon with nothing but a pointy stick.