ffs brane i will stab you with a QTip on waking

dremt that

a: i had finished bsf
b: the editors had noted me over to celebrate
c: after a long chat about how great they thought it was (solid work from my unconscious there)
d: they explained that the publishers had declined to run it
e: for no given reason
g: we then looked at other projects the publishers undertook, which were all nicely illustrated educational partworks for children, in german, hence their puzzlement at my contribution

i think i know have...

A: structure
B: an ending
C: a sense of where it can be pruned a lot
D: a husk to begin work on tomorrow that is actually (very slightly) shorter than version 1

There are only two bits where I still need to insert unwritten material :(

One of these bits can be a single sentence.

Yay me. This has been the most bizarre writing experience of my career.