Not sure if I'm coming or going...
My client sent what is likely the last assignment of the year, a 13,000-word monster that will probably take me the better part of a week to complete.
Meanwhile, this evening, I made beef Stroganoff for dinner. I had to make one small change to the recipe that I found, which called for 2-1/2 pounds of beef tenderloin (aka, filet mignon). However, at our local meat market (which I am partial to, as my perception is that their meat is superior to what you find packaged in styrofoam and plastic wrap in most stores), said cut runs to over $20 a pound, which would have made the dish quite expensive. I settled for a cut of meat that cost less than half that amount.
The memoir is almost at 90,000 words, at which point I really must put the brakes on the writing part of the project and begin to seriously see about printing a set of proofs in book form. My previous estimate of somewhere around 200 pages was completely wrong, as the page size of my document was specified to be A4 and the font was suitably sized for that format, while the physical dimensions of the book I envision is 120 mm by 190 mm (4.72 in by 7.48 in).
In any event, after playing around with font sizes, I've chosen Times New Roman 11 as the font, which gives me a tentative (yet better) page count of just over 300.
I've also figured out that I cannot identify a path forward for my relatively unsuccessful novel of a couple of LJ Idols ago about a fellow named Feather (whose name is now Ike) without printing and reading the 17,000 words that have been written so far. I think the operative word, here, is "immersion."
I need to immerse myself in the story and see where I can take it.
If we assume the same font and page size, then I'll need somewhere just short of 60,000 words for a book 200 pages in length. The math says I need 43,000 more pages. Marketing says they must be interesting pages. Compelling pages. You get the idea.
I think I can do it.
Cheers...
Also posted at Dreamwidth. Comment here or there.
Meanwhile, this evening, I made beef Stroganoff for dinner. I had to make one small change to the recipe that I found, which called for 2-1/2 pounds of beef tenderloin (aka, filet mignon). However, at our local meat market (which I am partial to, as my perception is that their meat is superior to what you find packaged in styrofoam and plastic wrap in most stores), said cut runs to over $20 a pound, which would have made the dish quite expensive. I settled for a cut of meat that cost less than half that amount.
The memoir is almost at 90,000 words, at which point I really must put the brakes on the writing part of the project and begin to seriously see about printing a set of proofs in book form. My previous estimate of somewhere around 200 pages was completely wrong, as the page size of my document was specified to be A4 and the font was suitably sized for that format, while the physical dimensions of the book I envision is 120 mm by 190 mm (4.72 in by 7.48 in).
In any event, after playing around with font sizes, I've chosen Times New Roman 11 as the font, which gives me a tentative (yet better) page count of just over 300.
I've also figured out that I cannot identify a path forward for my relatively unsuccessful novel of a couple of LJ Idols ago about a fellow named Feather (whose name is now Ike) without printing and reading the 17,000 words that have been written so far. I think the operative word, here, is "immersion."
I need to immerse myself in the story and see where I can take it.
If we assume the same font and page size, then I'll need somewhere just short of 60,000 words for a book 200 pages in length. The math says I need 43,000 more pages. Marketing says they must be interesting pages. Compelling pages. You get the idea.
I think I can do it.
Cheers...
Also posted at Dreamwidth. Comment here or there.