Well last week I finished my book. It’s the first draft and
it is a skeleton right now compared to what I have plans to do with it. Now
comes the editing along with filling in missing scenes and skimpy sections.
I finished the first draft on page 113, that’s 53,275 words,
so I’ve got a good base in which to go from. I hope to fill it out to around
75,000 words or so—we’ll see.
I had just set a 3 ½ pages a day quota, but now I’m going to
have to alter that since I’ll be doing pages edited/rewritten/written instead
of just writing. I’m going to need to hold off on placing a quota down until next
week since I’ll need this week to gauge what I can handle.
Anyways, just a little update of a post. Still working hard,
and I’m glad that I have the book’s first draft finished. Writing this play by
play account really has helped keep me focused. Thanks to everyone who take the
time to read along.
Sounds like it's coming along well. At least you have leeway for editing and adding or withdrawing scenes; the trilogy I'm currently working on is written in journal format, 40 pages to every journal and 5 journals per book, so I have to fit everything into 200 pages, not a page more and not a page less.
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