Self-Referential Metanovel · chapter

Chapter 38: Practice Interruptus

Part XII: Metapractice

Mike Wolf · 2012 · 54 words

Two days later I wrote this chapter.

“This is not the way to practice practicing,” said the metanovel.

“It’s not,” agreed my computer.

“Really,” said the doorknob, exasperated. “The answer is so obvious.”

I thought for a while.

Then I sat down.

My computer and I typed: “You’re right. It’s obvious.”

Typeset from the published PDF (Salt Pond Publishing, 2012). Every word is as printed; only line breaks, running heads and hyphenation were removed.