Okay. So, I pulled another 10,000 words out of the monster today. (I love having a day off in the middle of the week.)

I need to rename this thing. Silly to keep calling it the Stupid Effing Novel when it's down to novella length.

Anyhow. Now we're down to around 39k words and I'm beginning to see the vague outline of a caseless slash story there. It's not good but at this point, with this story, I'm willing to settle for "marginally readable." (As I think I've mentioned about seventy-five times so far, right?)

There are a couple more chunks that need to go. Nothing extreme. Just two or three thousand more words. Then I'll have to actually sit down and read it and figure out what I have left.

I'm still avoiding the moment when I have to write some Actual Slash for this slash story.