Noveling again
Progress report: I hit a 100,000 words today!
101253 / 140,000
(72.%)
This was followed by the realization that the chapter I was working on has expanded from a projected 5000 words first into 6000 words, because all my chapters in this book seem to turn out that long, and then that they were three chapters altogether, massing 20,000 words in toto. Which means I'm still going to have to do seven more chapters (or eight), and the novel needs to be 140,000 words long and I might get more lovely surprises just like this.
I never really expected it to turn out below 120,000 words, to be honest, in spite of my neat 20 chapter ouline. But stil, 20,000 + more is a lot. I so wanted to be done by January so I can start editing Single White Werewolf. I think I have discovered (one of the) thing(s) that's wrong with it. The first three or four chapters don't match the rest of the novel. They promise the reader the wrong thing.
This is something I pointed out to my critique buddy, sylviavolk2000, lately, but it took me another three months to figure it out for my own novel! Mote, meet beam...
So I just have to scratch those first chapters, start at the place the first scene of that novel started, two years ago (see? Never second guess yourself) and reintroduce the things I introduced in the original first chapters only in a different way and a different spot.
Novel Title: Still No Title
Typos: too many to recount here. Hubby's fixing them for me, the darling.
Darling du jour: The Bridge Troll's voice fell on him like an avalanche of bricks.
New novel bunnies: Two
Still searching for: the cool thing that makes humanity unique in this universe
101253 / 140,000
(72.%)
This was followed by the realization that the chapter I was working on has expanded from a projected 5000 words first into 6000 words, because all my chapters in this book seem to turn out that long, and then that they were three chapters altogether, massing 20,000 words in toto. Which means I'm still going to have to do seven more chapters (or eight), and the novel needs to be 140,000 words long and I might get more lovely surprises just like this.
I never really expected it to turn out below 120,000 words, to be honest, in spite of my neat 20 chapter ouline. But stil, 20,000 + more is a lot. I so wanted to be done by January so I can start editing Single White Werewolf. I think I have discovered (one of the) thing(s) that's wrong with it. The first three or four chapters don't match the rest of the novel. They promise the reader the wrong thing.
This is something I pointed out to my critique buddy, sylviavolk2000, lately, but it took me another three months to figure it out for my own novel! Mote, meet beam...
So I just have to scratch those first chapters, start at the place the first scene of that novel started, two years ago (see? Never second guess yourself) and reintroduce the things I introduced in the original first chapters only in a different way and a different spot.
Novel Title: Still No Title
Typos: too many to recount here. Hubby's fixing them for me, the darling.
Darling du jour: The Bridge Troll's voice fell on him like an avalanche of bricks.
New novel bunnies: Two
Still searching for: the cool thing that makes humanity unique in this universe