A slight miscalculation

By spklvr · Mar 26, 2011 · ·
  1. I wrote a pretty detailed 3-page plot outline of the first chapter of my story. Then I started writing it. Spent several weeks on it, not really thinking about the fact that I wrote several pages pretty much every day. Then I finally finished, never having thought about how long it was. It was 60 000 words... the first chapter. The chapter I thought would be the shortest of them all. And I haven't even written a word of description. There is this one scene, have no clue where they are supposed to be. Anyway, I can easily get it up to 80 000 words, probably more (thought it was too fast paced anyway) so I'm guessing this will be the first book of a series rather than a chapter. Wonder how that happened....

    How do people feel about a chapterless book btw? Because it was meant to be a single chapter, I'm having problems figuring out how to split it up. It has a lot of natural breaks because I put the date and location before every time switch, so maybe it doesn't need any... we'll see.

Comments

  1. w176
    Whow. That is long.

    Split it at the natural breaks. A chapter is the way I see it meant to be a neat chunk or reading for a short sitting.
  2. Bay K.
    LOL!
    Not laughing at you, Spklvr, but at your writing plight.
    You were trying to tame that beast called the literary muse.
    It 'possessed' you completely and said, "F--- your will!"
    It's sometimes like trying to contain a tempest with bare hands.
    You wanted some wood and landed in a jungle.
    You wanted a pimch of salt and the whole container fell in.

    Ahhh! The joys of writing. :)
    (Geez! 60 to 80,000 words ... for only chapter 1) LOL!


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  3. spklvr
    I'm also thinking of changing stuff slightly in the rewrite so that several time switches fit as a chapter. Otherwise it's just a whole lot of tiny chapters.
  4. spklvr
    Lol, yeah, that's pretty much how it was I think. I've been trying to write about 5000 words each day. I write those 5000 words in a single document, then cut and paste them into the one with my story. I blame that for why I didn't see how long it was.
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