#PennedPossibilities 645 — What was the most unexpected challenge you encountered while writing your WIP?

I'm of two minds how to answer, so I'll answer twice.

The mainline WIPs both deal with the topic of sex, peripherally—in any case not graphically, but also without shame. How the content of my stories reflects on the stories' author has caused me to choke (as in stop writing) repeatedly. Visit my pinned intro post; the second comment is the mantra I used (use) to get me writing again.

Writing Mars Need Women was unexpectedly challenging production-wise. As a writer who can pump out 2-4K in a writing session, 750 words composed to a prompt to fit a story line, shoehorned into a toot, revised, and published each day for 31 days proved exhausting as it was exhilarating. I'd thought I'd work on the other WIP at the same time. Pfft! Some days I had to give up, then get two stories out the next day to stay on schedule. Well, I did it once… so I can do it again?

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