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Jul. 5th, 2008 05:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brightlotusmoonThe rush is fantastic. I feel like I've been separated from my writerbrain for ages. I'm several pages into Chapter 25. This, after months of being stalled on Chapter 24.
I'm now almost at 93,000 words. I suspect there will be about six chapters left, and that the whole thing will fall just short of 120,000 words. That's massive for a first novel, I imagine.
I'm starting to worry that any agent I query will look at the completed manuscript and tell me it's way too long to be published. I certainly don't mind cutting out chunks here and there to tighten and clean it up, but I don't want to cut too much. It's a big story.
Right now, however, I just need to concentrate on finishing it. I can feel it. I'll get there.
It'll be sweet.
One more day off. I think tomorrow, I'll go for a long walk, maybe a bus ride or a metro ride to a shopping center (it's not like I need to pay for my transportation, thank you disability ID). I'll do something good for myself. Something small to praise myself, tell myself I'm doing well.
I'm doing well, you know.
I'm now almost at 93,000 words. I suspect there will be about six chapters left, and that the whole thing will fall just short of 120,000 words. That's massive for a first novel, I imagine.
I'm starting to worry that any agent I query will look at the completed manuscript and tell me it's way too long to be published. I certainly don't mind cutting out chunks here and there to tighten and clean it up, but I don't want to cut too much. It's a big story.
Right now, however, I just need to concentrate on finishing it. I can feel it. I'll get there.
It'll be sweet.
One more day off. I think tomorrow, I'll go for a long walk, maybe a bus ride or a metro ride to a shopping center (it's not like I need to pay for my transportation, thank you disability ID). I'll do something good for myself. Something small to praise myself, tell myself I'm doing well.
I'm doing well, you know.
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that book
Date: 2008-07-07 05:48 pm (UTC)Re: that book
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Date: 2008-07-07 08:06 pm (UTC)You reminded me that I'd love to read Joyce's Dubliners and Portrait again.
Re: that book
Date: 2008-07-07 08:51 pm (UTC)