Jan 28, 2011 19:26
From the looks of things, Ace, King, Queen is going to have somewhere in the region of 25 chapters. Now, taking my average word count for the four chapters I've done so far (about 1,500 words a chapter), that's only 38,000 words. Frankly, that's not enough.
If I'm likely to get it published, I'm looking at needing 70,000 words. I mean, sure some chapters are going to be longer than others, but that's still almost double my estimated word score.
I'm going to be doing my final edits to chapter by chapter this weekend, and then I'll just be writing. And then, if everything goes to plan in roughly 40 weeks the second draft will be done (A chapter every 2 weeks, already done 4 chapters). From there, I'll look at what can be expanded etc.
Oh boy.