Writer Me: *noodling along*

Pragmatic Me: So we're agreed then. This novel gets finished & then we're off fiction for a while.

WM: *nods* Except SFF reviews.

PM: Technically nonfiction, so yes.

WM: And this is so we can focus on articles about more urgent issues for the next bit?

PM: Exactly. Especially with our markets being--

WM: Say! Does this mean we can write that experimental anti-memoir we talked about?

PM: ...

PM: I don't think--

WM: *waving a notebook* Here's Chapter 1!

PM: 🤦🏻