Halfway there?

By Madman · Jul 5, 2020 · 779 · 2
  1. I have seventeen chapters in my outline and I just got started on the eight chapter in the actual book. I am at around twenty six thousand words, so I fear the first draft might be the size of a novella. Will be a lot to put in and add to make it a fully fledged book. Or perhaps the coming chapters will be many times fatter than the previous I have written? Will see.

    Anyhow, I am happy to be where I am after years of world building and bits of writing. I have dedicated a good portion of my life to this project and I do not regret it, it is my dream work.

    It is hard to remember how to write properly sometimes. I have even felt as though I have regressed when it comes to my writing skills. Or perhaps that is because I have learned so much that I know how terrible I am? I often feel like I am a better story teller than I am a writer.

    Another couple of chapters to go! Time to write!

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  1. Steve Rivers
    It can work that way a lot. I was gunning to make the current book I'm working on a novella. But now I'm a chapter and a half from completion and I'm thinking it might scrape past 50k words.
    Some scenes you think "No, i should stop here" and it ends shorter, others it needs to breathe and carry on some more. I think in many ways, that's one of the things I like most about writing novellas/novels. It organically grows itself, gesturing you to start and stop where it needs. It makes it all the more like the horrible analogy I hate saying out loud, that it feels like your own baby. But it's true.

    It's such a great feeling when you feel like you're near the home straight, and you can see it all coming together.
    Steve Rivers, Jul 5, 2020
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  2. Madman
    Indeed it does! From baby steps to running shoes, your book will mature on its own sometimes. You just set up the beginning and then watch the world unfold.
    Madman, Jul 5, 2020
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