Self-Referential Metanovel · chapter
Chapter 40: How To Practice
Part XII: Metapractice
I started a new chapter so I’d have nothing distracting me.
Of all the skills that I needed, what was the first one that I needed to build?
What was the foundation on which I’d build the rest?
I didn’t know. But I was determined to figure it out.
I had an idea.
I imagined doing it in my metanovel.
I tried it.
It didn’t work.
But I learned something.
I imagined a variation.
I tried it.
It didn’t work.
But I learned something.
I had another idea.
I imagined doing it.
I tried it.
It didn’t work.
But I learned something.
I deleted the chapters in in which I’d imagined my attempts.
I wrote my practice later on.
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