I made it, folks
I have written 50,076 of 50,000 words.
I am now 100% done!
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Yup, I'm done. Thank God. The ending was rough for me. I had said all I needed to say at around 46,000, so getting 4,000 more words out of my story wasn't easy, but I managed. A lot of what I wrote in this novel is crap, but there are also some good parts. I probably won't look at this for a while, though.
I'm proud of myself. I've always struggled to write long fiction. I honestly wasn't sure if I could do it, but now I see that I can. That makes me happy. I plan to use this technique on other stories I've tried to write and failed to finish. Hopefully it'll be just as effective.