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.