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and -- we have wordage
Apr. 24th, 2013 01:25 pmOkay, so maybe I was blaming yesterday's lack of words on the wrong thing. Or not.
It did turn out to be a) the end of Chapter 17 (chapter ends sometimes bring me to a grinding halt for a day) and b) finally reaching the climax of the book, which is good but apparently I needed to write what happens just after the climax first so I know it'll all end up okay before I could put James through the climax. Don't ask. This is not the first time this has happened. And I've got about a quarter of the climax written, too, so go me?
Anyway. Over 1200 words, and it looks like this one's going to end up in the 85,000+ word count range like True Gold, not 165,000 cut to 115,000 like Repeating History (and don't let anyone tell you that cutting that many words isn't like the way they killed Yuri Vorbarra, because it is, believe me -- it's an order of magnitude easier to go back and fill in, which I will be doing, than to cut whole scenes, which is what I ended up doing to Charley).
It did turn out to be a) the end of Chapter 17 (chapter ends sometimes bring me to a grinding halt for a day) and b) finally reaching the climax of the book, which is good but apparently I needed to write what happens just after the climax first so I know it'll all end up okay before I could put James through the climax. Don't ask. This is not the first time this has happened. And I've got about a quarter of the climax written, too, so go me?
Anyway. Over 1200 words, and it looks like this one's going to end up in the 85,000+ word count range like True Gold, not 165,000 cut to 115,000 like Repeating History (and don't let anyone tell you that cutting that many words isn't like the way they killed Yuri Vorbarra, because it is, believe me -- it's an order of magnitude easier to go back and fill in, which I will be doing, than to cut whole scenes, which is what I ended up doing to Charley).
