To cleanse my pallet, I finished formatting my shortest available draft in inventory at 5800 words. Very often when I read through a draft, it begins with me thinking this is an awful experiment so maybe it isn’t worth editing. Then I get to a point when I fall in love with the story as I begin to understand it despite it having flaws that surprise me by becoming integrated distinctive differentiating virtues.
In this story, the “gut punch” is a metaphor for when reality punches someone in the gut, so they have to face facts. Warren is symbolically reality through which Nicole learns to love her individual life and her femininity. Before meeting Warren, Nicole lived a shallow life of appearances directed by the expectations of others for how she was supposed to live her life. Confronted by reality in Warren, she learned that she must be obedient to reality in order to live her life on her own terms to achieve her most important life goals.
This story is like an unromance story in the form of a Platonic dialogue as if the One Minute Manager does love and relationships.
Jaycee Woods 
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