[img[plane]]\nYou've finally escaped the hellhole known as Adelaide.\n\nAt long last you'll be able to write a truly moving, genre-defining classic.\n\n[[You write something|Melbegin]].
[img[write]]\nIt isn't very good.\n\nWhat do you do?\n[[Write something else|Write]].\n[[Blame Adelaide for stifling your creativity|Blameadelaide]].
<<silently>>\n<<set $blame +=1>>\n<<endsilently>>Clearly, there could be nothing wrong with your creative vision, which is both inspired and inspiring. Your technical competence could scarcely be called into question, either.\n\nIt should be obvious to even the most brazen philistine that the only factor preventing you from achieving literary greatness is the shithouse city in which you live.\n\nAdelaide is at fault, not you.\n\nWhat do you do?\n[[Tweet about the stultifying conservatism of the Adelaide Establishment®|Tweet]].\n[[Write a poem about the horrors of living in Adelaide|Write]].\n<<if $blame gte 2>>[[Shut the fuck up and move to Melbourne|Melbourne]].<<endif>>
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<<silently>>\n<<set $tweet +=1>>\n<<endsilently>>\n[img[tweet]]\nYou make a series of tweets about how <<print either("Adelaide wears down anyone who refuses to conform to its mould.", "Adelaide is a hotbed of intolerance unsurpassed in the Southern Hemisphere.", "you wish you could live in Melbourne, which unlike Adelaide has no bad weather, NIMBYs, or people who don't appreciate art.", "no-one in Adelaide understands your art.", "Adelaide is the reason that you're single.", "Adelaide has no creative energy.", "nothing happens in Adelaide, ever.", "Adelaide suffocates the individual.", "everyone knows fucking everyone in Adelaide; there's no privacy.")>>\n\n<<if $tweet lt 2>>[[Tweet again|Tweet]]<<endif>>\s\n<<if $tweet gte 2 and $tweet <6>>Having spent a week's worth of writing time composing a series of highly cathartic tweets about the shortcomings of Adelaide, it occurs to you that instead of [[writing more tweets|Tweet]], you could now try to [[adapt them into a larger work|Write]]. Really, you've surely managed to fix everything you dislike about Adelaide now, haven't you?<<endif>>\n<<if $tweet gte 6>>By now you've managed to achieve minor Twitter fame with your sardonic, razor-sharp jokes about Radelaide, the Woolshed, and the Southern Expressway. A return to your longer writing is unthinkable – you simply haven't the time.\n\nThe end.<<endif>>
[img[write]]\nIt isn't very good.\n\nThe end.
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<<silently>>\n<<set $pieces +=1>>\n<<endsilently>>[img[pc]]\n<<if $pieces eq 1>>Once again, you write.\nIt still isn't very good.\n\nWhat do you do?\n[[Throw it away and write something else|Write]].\n[[Blame the repressive influence of Adelaide|Blameadelaide]].<<endif>><<if $pieces eq 2>>You write something different. It's not particularly interesting or new.\n\nWhat do you do?\n[[Try writing something different|Write]].\n[[Give up for now. It's clearly the oppressive influence of Adelaide that's preventing you from writing a true classic|Blameadelaide]].<<endif>><<if $pieces eq 3>>You try writing in a form you'd previously not experimented with.\nYou feel like your work has potential, but it still isn't very impressive yet.\n\nWhat do you do?\n[[Accept that even art with the potential to be great fails in drab surroundings such as Adelaide|Blameadelaide]].\n[[Draft your piece|Write]].<<endif>><<if $pieces gte 4>>You polish your writing further. As you review what you've done, you lean slightly back in your chair, satisfied at last. It's not flawless, but you feel you've finally managed to express <i>something</i> through your writing.\n\nThe end.<<endif>>
[[You write something|Begin]].\n<<silently>>\n<<set $pieces = 0>>\n<<set $tweet = 0>>\n<<set $blame = 0>>\n<<endsilently>>
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Blame Adelaide
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