So I finished the rough draft of what's turned out to be a not-so-short story I've been working on. It clocks in at 15,733 words. I'll still go through it with edits and trim it down, but man, it sure took on an unexpected life of its own! What started out as a really simple idea quickly blossomed into a whole lot of worldbuilding and backstory, and while not all of that will make the final cut -- and I don't know what I'm going to do with it whenever there actually IS a "final cut" -- I had...