This is why it’s ridiculous, fyi:

Listen… my entire personal life is fucked… but I have written over 2000 words without using the letter ‘i’ even once… does that count for anything…

This is… I mean. Incredible. But terrifying.

You’ve written over 2000 words with no ‘it’. No ‘ing’. Oh God, no ‘ing’.

You’re a force to be reckoned with.

No ‘it’, no ‘is’, no ‘-ing’, no ‘in’, no ‘I’. I’m on 2,700 words now, and I’m… not sure how I’ve managed to do this. Dialogue is proving the biggest challenge, unsurprisingly. Why did I do this to myself?

So this is going to be like 15-20k when it’s done… um

If I finish this, I will probably count it amongst my greatest achievements.

Op you’re the most powerful person on writeblr right now

That’s good to hear because I’ve lost all semblance of control with respect to every other facet of my life, but

I’m maybe a third of the way through now?? So that’s good???? And now I’m going to have a very relaxing bath??????

I probably have about another 14,000 words to go and honestly, when I hit 10k (the expected halfway point), I’m going to treat myself to writing 100 words of something else that has the dang letter ‘i’ in it

Nearly wept when I realised I couldn’t use the word ‘frantic’ earlier, but

7.5k is my next milestone, and it actually might happen tomorrow, which is unnerving. How should I celebrate??

Getting really bad impostor syndrome today and feeling 95% sure that I will never amount to a thing and will probably never finish this story, and so in response to that dumb brain thought I did this

Suck it, subconscious.

You are a force of nature and I am both impressed and terrified.

Please publish this somewhere when you a e done so we can read it holy shit

I absolutely will!! In other news I hit 10k today and that’s without a thesaurus and oh golly, my poor think-box

This author is a sleeping God among mortals

The Earth fears their awakening into their full powers

Full powers yet to be confirmed, but after a short hiatus, I have returned

When I get to 12k, I might do a very elaborate jig

I really hope the title of your story is “Team.”

#my brain is hurting trying to even consider doing this

What is it about???

It is a retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice (and no, I can’t use her name because it has an i in it, but this is in fact part of the theme of lacking agency and identity, so it is not a problem) in which Eurydice is the architect of her own descent into the Underworld and Orpheus can’t take no for an answer!

And also:

I have a more up to date version on my computer with quite a few more words but I don’t remember how many oh no

I both respect and fear you