A Little Anime Boy and A Strange Clown Magician Helped Me Write a 38,951-Word Book

Alexandria Ducksworth
4 min readMay 20, 2021
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How did I end up writing a story over 38,000 words long? My original plan was to write a short story somewhere between 1,000 to 2,500 words. What I wrote instead was basically a book!

I used to believe I didn’t have enough “oomph” yet to write a full-length book.

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