Still writing...

[sleigh]

Passed 70,000 words this morning on A MAGIC OF DAWN. That puts me close to the halfway mark on the draft -- at least I hope it does!

And I've figured out the necessary character arc for one of the main characters all the way through to the end of the book. That helps!

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[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

...70,000 words...close to the halfway mark...

Heh, this is how we know it's fantasy genre.

Are you a putter-inner or a taker-outer in revisions? (I'm a putter-inner. 70K in first draft would put me near the finish line, but I end up adding about 20% in subsequent drafts.)

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

I both take out and add words in revision, but generally add more than I delete. A 150,000 word draft might turn into a 170,000 word 'final' manuscript -- but it's a case of deleting 10,000 words while adding 30,000.

And yep, a halfway point of 70,000 tells you it's a Big Fat Fantasy. :-)

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

I could have sworn that I'd already read A MAGIC of TWILIGHT. I'm guessing that the thrill of having A MAGIC OF TWILIGHT come out in MMP drove the name of the book you're writing right out of your head...

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Argh! You're absolutely right, David. Oops! Gotta go change that... :-)

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Oh, so that's what you've been doing.

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[madtruk.livejournal.com]

"And I've figured out the necessary character arc for one of the main characters all the way through to the end of the book. That helps!"

Yeah, otherwise it's just a "character ar..."

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm still looking forward to reading it, regardless...

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Among a few dozen other things... :-)

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

:-)