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Finished draft two of the story I wrote for my challenge. I'm going to try and get up the motivation to work on draft three, which involves much more serious editing. And by get up the motivation, I more mean stop staring at the internet and get writing. I think a scene or two is missing to connect to the end. I am slightly worried that this is a story where "things happen" rather than an actual plot, but I won't be able to tell that until I get some real critique on it.

It is definitely optimistic, linear, and full of healthy relationships, though!

~~I also need a better title.~~

I've been working on a shorter story that was originally going to be a flash fiction piece, but I'm not sure it's going to work out as a flash fiction piece. Which is fine. I need more character development to make the plot work, and I simply cannot do that in another 500 words. It'll likely still be a shorter story -- around 2,500 - 3,000 words, I'm pretty sure. I just have to figure out how said character development happens.

But basically, it boils down to the question:

What would you do if someone offered you the chance to give up everything going on it your life so that you can go on a spaceship and sail the stars? You have to go back eventually, but you can take from it what you can. A chance to fully be yourself, not confined by societal rules and what other people expect of you.

No, seriously. What would you do?

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In the end, you have to come back. The only problem is, there's a chance that everyone else has moved on. So if you trust your partner to wait and to accept you as you've changed, you wouldn't have to give them up.

I'd be curious to see who I would be as well.

And no, I had not seen that! I will start reinforcing the windows.

The thing is, I am totally okay with coming back. I have faith in my partner, and if I'm mistaken, I'll live with that. The problem is, I can't abandon them. If I had their blessing I'd go, but I am unwilling to leave somebody who needs me. (I'm still thinking of my Doctor Who analogy, where the Doctor would come and be like, "You can be my companion, but you have to get in right now." But, uh, if in your analogy I get to work things out with my partner in advance, sort of like a long distance relationship without the communication involved, that's a totally different story.)

Well, you have 10 minutes to figure it out.

What would you do, do you know?

I would take it.

I'm in a state of flux right now, and being given the chance to discover who I am without the walls of society falling in on me would be god-given. Perhaps that's why I'm writing about it in the first place. Building my own place among the stars, even if I have to go back, would be beautiful to me. No one that I have to put on a face for. No one to judge me when I'm weird or childish. No one to question why I'm unhappy. Because Emily doesn't judge and she doesn't ask. She just accepts you for who you are and encourages you to find yourself and grow. Georgia is the 17th person she's done this for and every time saying goodbye has been hard, but she's known it's something she has to do, for everyone else's sake. I'm not sure what she gets out of it, but it warms her heart as much as it breaks it.