we hoped that would be a quick, maybe 2 hour long writing project. and technically, it was!
if you disregard the first hour of work we decided to cut out, and the other hour of largely drifting between distractions as we were debating whether or not to cut that hour. it very much improved the final result a lot, but it also meant we did a 3 am again.
so that, plus we're still halfway to tears over thinking about the events of that story, means we need to get some rest now. which we will! goodnight everyone! we did it, we finished a short story again!