For the record, for any of you who are worried that Tala has gout, don’t be.
And I finally started writing my novel! Huzzah! At this moment, I have 3278 words! Ha ha ha!
Today, we’re supposed to be at 15003. Hmm, why don’t I put expected word count on these webcomics, that would have been cool. All this time, I never thought of doing that until now. Good grief.
Anyway, that means I’m about 78% behind. I can do this! Ha ha ha!
What’s gout?
“Gout is a form of inflammatory arthritis that develops in some people who have high levels of uric acid in the blood. The acid can form needle-like crystals in a joint and cause sudden, severe episodes of pain, tenderness, redness, warmth and swelling.”
Yeah, Tala doesn’t strike me as the gout kind…if there is a gout kind other than rich old men in Jane Austen novels.
Why are there always rich old men in her novels?
She lived at the lower end of the upper class in England, so she knew rich people and poor people, but spent more of her time with the higher-ups than the lower-downs. She wrote what she knew, which was the gentry of England–not the super wealthy for the most part, but the comfortably circumstanced.