@simon two years ago I wrote like mad and assembled Flash Fiction and a couple short sci-fi stories. Friends politely reviewed the effort as unapproachable (paraphrasing) and a tiny sci-fi online publisher rejected the better of the stories. I quietly withdrew the pdf but it was masterful! Had a cover, a hyperlink TOC made in OpenOffice (I dare anyone to fault it) auto pagination and explored a dozen notions that tickled me. Never started/finished anything quite so big before or since.