Insomnia

It's late and I liked this wonderful little picture from The Onion.

And yet now I can't help but think about a 20,000-word monster that's been lurking in the deep, dark recesses of my laptop and could likely be expanded into a full-length novel

Describing stories in terms of words always makes me feel like I'm talking about going fishing. Gary Larson once wrote a Far Side comic where old cartoonists were bragging about how they had characters with ears and noses and so forth "this big!" Wonder if there's room for writers in there.?