Self-Referential Metanovel · chapter

Chapter 40: How To Practice

Part XII: Metapractice

Mike Wolf · 2012 · 126 words

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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