50,000 words! If this were November, this would be very significant. As it is, it’s just another signpost, rather than a goalpost.

(A few weeks back, JT Glover posted about chapter themes. My chapters generally aren’t themed, but this, the sixteenth, clearly is. It’s about nudity, bodies, being naked emotionally and physically. Which is, I think, the only way my fourteen-year-old narrator, in fact any fourteen-year-old, can be naked; there are no exposed bodies at that age without emotions being likewise exposed.)

Other writing news of note: I finished a series of mutant turtle poems, which I started back in my last semester, so that I could submit them to this superhero poetry anthology. Even if the anthology doesn’t work out, writing poems–not just motes, but honest-to-gee-dash-dee poems–feels good. In celebration, here are the four best TMNT things I could find on youtube:

and this (click on it–it’s worth it). Good god, what is coming out of Donatello’s face?

(In other-other news, ten days till matrimony. Weird.)