So it took me one night to write an 8,700-word short story. Then it took me two days to cut 2,000 words from it to make it a publishable length. Now it’s taken me two days to cut 200 words to bring it in at 6,500 words (a number that has meaning only to me).

I don’t even want to think about how long it’s going to take me to come up with a title.