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This morning, I finished the rough draft on my latest novel. It ended up a little under 88K, which is pretty close to my target of 90K. At this point, I’m taking a break from it for a few weeks, and then I’ll start editing early in 2012. I don’t know how much more I’ll mention the novel publically unless there’s any significant news. I expect editing to continue all the way until the novel reaches one of two destinations: publication or permanent classification. At some point in the editing process, I hope to find the novel polished enough to approach agents. I’m looking forward to the next stages.
My writing pace increased over the past few weeks, allowing me to hit 50K words on my novel this morning. I feel like I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I know where things are going, and I think 40K more (plus a few extra thousand for good measure) will probably do it. When the rough draft is complete, it’ll be time to start the editing process. I’ll be ready by then to really tear this thing apart and rebuild it into something better.
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