A fancy way of saying that the manuscript just made 100,000+ words a few minutes ago, and thus made it to that mark by midnight of July 31.\u00a0 Almost didn’t, but did.<\/p>\n
In August, I need to throw at least another 20,000 words into the cauldron, stir vigorously, and start pulling out the things that don’t belong, adding the things that go in last or (confession time) were just forgotten,\u00a0 and so on.\u00a0 And so on.\u00a0\u00a0 Serious driving for daily words will continue until the 120,000 point–after that it’s revision, revision, revision,\u00a0 which often means the word count goes up and down like a yo-yo.<\/p>\n
What can I tell you?\u00a0\u00a0 I like how the story’s shaping.\u00a0\u00a0 It needs a lot of revision, but the skeleton’s basically sound (barring some places where the arm bone isn’t connected to the backbone, and the foot bones are three feet away from the ankle bone and so on.)\u00a0\u00a0 I think it will be\u00a0 a good Vatta story.\u00a0 The main characters have come back to life and feel real though one or two still have a big of haze at the edges.\u00a0 (Not Ky.\u00a0 Not Rafe.\u00a0 Not Stella.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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