Once upon a story

 While I'm not sharing any writing from The Death of Beauty this time as editing is yet to be commenced, I will give a brief update about my writing life. First, drafting is going reasonably well. I'm currently 23,579 words into the manuscript, which I estimate will end up at 130,000 at least. Perhaps I'll be finished by Christmas? Let's hope, because between university applications and coursework I haven't been able to write nearly as much as I'd like. But I'm getting to some of my favourite scenes, and I haven't had a writer's block - yet! I haven't done as much outlining as I promised myself, because writing swooped in but I will get back to that soon. Probably... But I did come very highly commended in the Chester Youth writing competition for my entry ' Hubris' which I was extremely proud of. In fact, I've decided to share it with you today in lieu of The Death of Beauty , so enjoy this 300 word story! Esmé 🩷🩷 HUBRIS Thud.  S...