Darlington D1
Apparently I have finished a draft of Darlington! I wasn't entirely sure I was going to-- and I'm not thrilled with the ending I wrote-- but I now have the three essentials for revision: a beginning, a middle and an end.
For those who are interested, the stats:
- There are 51 chapters, ranging from 4-14 pages.
- My spreadsheet says I have 424 pages total, though my on-page numbers go up to 417 (rewriting chapter 1 multiple times is mostly the cause of this discrepancy)
- My spreadsheet also tells me that there are 111,135 words in this draft. I am an over-writer, so I knew this would be hefty going in. However, for me, that's light for a first draft, so... yay?
- There are at least three chapters I left intentionally short because I know I will be fixing them in the next draft with more... stuff. Good stuff. Promise. (Yeah, no real words left for description, sorry!)
- There are 4 versions of chapter 1.
- There are 3 versions of chapter 24
- There are 2 versions of chapters 18, 19, 23 & 31
- I still have not written the kissing scene in chapter 43 like I told Jess I would. Oops.
- I began this book on December 9, 2010. That is 418 days from initial idea to end of draft one. If this seems long to you, during that same time I also revised (meaning tore the sh*t out of) ACCURSED. Twice. (See This Post for last year's writing stats.)
And now I must shove all of it into a file and send it to my bestie before she kills me for making her wait for it :)
AND this means that tomorrow I get to work on Nat's story on the bus! Yay!
For those who are interested, the stats:
- There are 51 chapters, ranging from 4-14 pages.
- My spreadsheet says I have 424 pages total, though my on-page numbers go up to 417 (rewriting chapter 1 multiple times is mostly the cause of this discrepancy)
- My spreadsheet also tells me that there are 111,135 words in this draft. I am an over-writer, so I knew this would be hefty going in. However, for me, that's light for a first draft, so... yay?
- There are at least three chapters I left intentionally short because I know I will be fixing them in the next draft with more... stuff. Good stuff. Promise. (Yeah, no real words left for description, sorry!)
- There are 4 versions of chapter 1.
- There are 3 versions of chapter 24
- There are 2 versions of chapters 18, 19, 23 & 31
- I still have not written the kissing scene in chapter 43 like I told Jess I would. Oops.
- I began this book on December 9, 2010. That is 418 days from initial idea to end of draft one. If this seems long to you, during that same time I also revised (meaning tore the sh*t out of) ACCURSED. Twice. (See This Post for last year's writing stats.)
And now I must shove all of it into a file and send it to my bestie before she kills me for making her wait for it :)
AND this means that tomorrow I get to work on Nat's story on the bus! Yay!