So the first half of my attempted brief summary of the Regency Romance Novel I was working on all last semester clocks in at over 2000 words. And yet, it's like pulling teeth for me to write a 500-word essay for an internship application. Although I suppose a good portion of that isn't just summary, but a description of the evolution of the story -- and I haven't even gone into the various incarnations of it, not described the alternative names, the spinoffs, etc. Oi vei.