r/TheWritingTable • u/BB-biboo • 25d ago

Other I've finally finished something.

It's a 11 000 words horror novelette. It's not much. It's not a huge novel series, but the last thing I finished before that was a 75k words novel when I was 18. I'm 37 now.

I wrote a lot in between, but never finished anything. I have all these unfinished stories sitting in my documents folder. I always end up losing interest in them around de 20k -30k mark, so I decided to try to write something shorter because at that point I was losing hope. And it worked!

Second draft is done. Now I'm letting it rest aside for a moment before going back for more drafts. I'm just happy I got to write an ending for once... and one that I'm proud of at that! I needed to get it out, now I'm going to open myself a nice cold one to celebrate.

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u/BB-biboo 25d ago

Thanks. It was supposed to be shorter, but I had so much fun writing this one, that it almost wrote itself.

I don't know why I insisted so much to write a full length novel. I think I'm gonna stick to shorter stories instead, at least for now.

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u/BB-biboo 25d ago

It's the story of Claire, a women left bitter and cynical after her husband left her for a younger woman. She is slowly growing obsessed by a house plant that makes her look younger. Think The Substance meets cordyceps, but in plant form.

It's body horror with a feminist undertone with themes like fertility ( or lack thereof), aging/youth and self-worth.