Besides the outside stuff that’s happened. the book has decided that it needs more in it.\u00a0 Like “How DOES Gwennothlin get a dozen horses from here to there without being robbed or killed?” and “Yes, but what about those two cohorts of Fox and quarter cohort of Golden…you can just have them pop up like mushrooms in the middle of the battle!!” and “If Vladi has been to Horngard in the past–distant past–back when it was occupied by the former kings (one or more of them) shouldn’t HE know where the lower entrance is?\u00a0 Wouldn’t he tell the people he’s traveling with?”\u00a0 and “Who’s behind the sudden problems in the Royal Couriers?\u00a0 WHY are they abusing their horses and dropping like flies in the past year or so.\u00a0 Who made these bad decisions?” and “What’s with Dragon??”<\/p>\n
That’s why I *thought* it was slotting nicely into the 150-155,000 word size until the past several days.\u00a0 Tonight it ran right over the 160,000 barrier as if it wasn’t there.\u00a0 And there are several thousand more to go.<\/p>\n
It’s after midnight and I need sleep badly and am making typos every other word, so I’ll have to come back when I can and add snippets and more explanation.\u00a0 Apologies for brevity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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