So, I'm plugging away at my Back Story project and just passed the 100,000 word mark. I think I still have about 5000 words to go but it is tough to judge really. I'm real close, but a character that dies is still alive, so ( Read more... )

I just realized that last week I passed 100,000 words for the year. Not too bad, but far short of what I expect my 2009 output to be. A large part of this year was spent on worldbulding and character development and playing around with narrative in search of my POV characters' voices ( Read more... )

The words are flowing. I've reached a point where quite a bit is happening building towards the main life-changing event that impacts everything that will come after. I'm still not sure if 100,000 words is my real goal for this novel, but so far I'm keeping it until I can say for certain I will need to up the word count beyond that.
Word count ( Read more... )