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And the Yuletide story is uploaded. With something like fifteen whole seconds to spare.
I honestly didn't intend to push the deadline anywhere near that close. Three things happened: I realized partway into my first-pass story that I had too much plot for the available remaining writing time; I underestimated the impact of a new part-time day job on my writing schedule; and I failed to anticipate losing about a day and a half to a nasty throat bug that sucked most of my energy, mental and physical alike, clean out of me.
However, the second-pass story went almost precisely as planned, and upload formatting was entirely painless.
I think I shall now fall over....
I honestly didn't intend to push the deadline anywhere near that close. Three things happened: I realized partway into my first-pass story that I had too much plot for the available remaining writing time; I underestimated the impact of a new part-time day job on my writing schedule; and I failed to anticipate losing about a day and a half to a nasty throat bug that sucked most of my energy, mental and physical alike, clean out of me.
However, the second-pass story went almost precisely as planned, and upload formatting was entirely painless.
I think I shall now fall over....
