from this blog post: march 5th
After many days scribbling and
typing I am up to 77322 words or 86% complete. There are a few things that need filling in, and
a couple more scenes to write but it’s pretty close to done. First draft, of
course, and I’m not sure it will reach 90k words. But that doesn’t matter. There
isn’t a target or a minimum word count required. It will take exactly as many
words as it takes to tell the story.
According to Scrivener, that comes
out at more than 200 pages, or a pretty standard novel length.
I started off well, but lost it a
little in the middle, as I often seem to do, but knowing myself a little
better, when the words wouldn’t come I went back to writing with pen and ink -
typing it up later. It seems to keep me from wandering off to ‘just look up this’
or ‘just check twitter’ or whatever.
And on one day I didn’t write a single
word. If I had kept up with pacemaker I would have been just under 10k words
ahead of where I am.
So, all in all, not bad.
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