Paused right at the cusp of the kissing part

This is my last day of my residency, and I think I am done writing here for now. I wrote 4,200 words today, which brings the book up to about 48,000 words. And it also brought me to the most magical part of any book: the kissing part.

I used to not be a big believer in the kissing part. In fact I thought the kissing part was both unnecessary and a little…