An auxiliary problem is that once you find that you've managed to write something like 50,000 words, you realize the difficulty of going back and editing it into something good. It takes a couple of hours at a careful pace just to read that much text.
Well, at least I decided to change the perspective to first person early. Doing that even 5000 words in would be hell.
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