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Feb. 11th, 2007 10:16 amSo I managed 2600 words yesterday and 3000 today, bringing me up to an even 100,000 words on the re-write of my novel. This brings me well into the second-to-last chapter. I estimate the completed novel will be about 120,000 to 130,000 words.
I've significantly changed the ending and the beginning, though made only minor adjustments and occasional cuts to the belly of this beast. I've tweaked the supernatural elements, clarified and developed one of them and removed the other. I've narrowed and directed the whole story towards my themes, tossed out quite a few rambling digressions and made the characters much less black-and-white and improved the overall tone.
I managed 60,000 words last month, but in the three weeks since then I've only got 40,000 because I've been goofing off so much. Some days I've written as little as a 1000, or even 700. I think I can bring it up to 50,000 in the next week, if I push at it.
Yesterday, we had gently-wafting snow. Today it's spring and the cats are watching the birds outside, playing in the melting snow.
I've significantly changed the ending and the beginning, though made only minor adjustments and occasional cuts to the belly of this beast. I've tweaked the supernatural elements, clarified and developed one of them and removed the other. I've narrowed and directed the whole story towards my themes, tossed out quite a few rambling digressions and made the characters much less black-and-white and improved the overall tone.
I managed 60,000 words last month, but in the three weeks since then I've only got 40,000 because I've been goofing off so much. Some days I've written as little as a 1000, or even 700. I think I can bring it up to 50,000 in the next week, if I push at it.
Yesterday, we had gently-wafting snow. Today it's spring and the cats are watching the birds outside, playing in the melting snow.