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Worlds of words
Jul. 5th, 2005 07:22 pmIrritation of the day: Coming back to work after a long weekend and finding out they actually expected me to work today! That's rather nervy.
Achievement of the day: As of this evening, the official word count on The Novel is 97,000 words. It's gettin' big, and I still have a ways to go. Some of that is padding, but maybe only 12 pages or so. Still, I might get it done in 125k. I sure hope so. I really don't want to repeat the agony and the ecstasy of Shivery Bones, hacking it down from 160k to 144k. Which was still too long, but the best I could do at the time. I haven't looked at the ms. since it went into an editorial holding pattern. I figure once it's rejected, I'll take another, really fresh look at it before I send it out again.
Typo of note: As of this evening, the official world count on The Novel is 97,000 worlds.
Achievement of the day: As of this evening, the official word count on The Novel is 97,000 words. It's gettin' big, and I still have a ways to go. Some of that is padding, but maybe only 12 pages or so. Still, I might get it done in 125k. I sure hope so. I really don't want to repeat the agony and the ecstasy of Shivery Bones, hacking it down from 160k to 144k. Which was still too long, but the best I could do at the time. I haven't looked at the ms. since it went into an editorial holding pattern. I figure once it's rejected, I'll take another, really fresh look at it before I send it out again.
Typo of note: As of this evening, the official world count on The Novel is 97,000 worlds.