Read: Half a Soul (Olivia Atwater): A young lady with only half a soul (which produced symptoms that look a lot like autism) tries to make the world a better place and also find love in alternate Regency England. A very anti-wealth, anti-war, and anti-cultural appropriation story, with faeries and an obnoxious magician.

Read: City of Ghosts (Victoria Schwab): A 12-year-old girl has secret ghost-interacting powers, a secret ghost sidekick, and parents that unwittingly drag her to the most haunted spots they can find (in this case, Edinburgh).

Read: The Border Keeper (Kerstin Hall): A mysterious and deeply suspicious visitor comes to the immortal guardian of the border between the mortal world and the realms of the gods, and causes a lot of trouble. Mythic and fantastical.

Words: check. This is more or less the end of the thing that distracted me from my stated goal for the writing challenge. I guess now I have to figure out how to produce a second draft. Should I edit the text I have? Should I rewrite it from scratch, knowing what I know now? Should I delete it and pretend it never happened?