Boom. And the first draft is complete.
A mere eleven months, 90,401 words and 383 pages of double-spaced size 12 Courier New later, I can now say:
“Why yes, I have written a novel. Thanks for asking. I’ll have a glass of the Malbec.”
Tag: word count
To Epilogue or Not To Epilogue?
Just finished drafting the penultimate chapter of my novel. Now twenty-two down, and 88,000 words written. Only one chapter left!
Or so I thought. And then it occurred to me: ‘Hang on, this isn’t a chapter. It’s an epilogue.’
Then the second thing occurred to me: ‘But people hate epilogues. Don’t they?’ Read more…
Word Count
I do wonder if professional writers concern themselves with word count as much as I do. I assume they must, at least to the extent of “Have I written my 2,000 words for the day? I have! Excellent. Crack open the wine, Jeeves.” Read more…
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