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Not a discussion per se... Today I hit 60k with my WIP novel. It's been a long time coming, and getting from 50k to 60k took a LONG time, but I did it!
Not done the novel yet (probably another 30k words or so), but I'm quite proud of this so far. It's the longest piece of writing I've ever done.
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I finally got a thumb under a story that's been decades in the making. It's historic fiction, that's as much as I'll say. After years of research, the obstacle to progress, with manifold false starts and reams of sketches, was where to start the story in a way that would stimulate emotional involvement, start the plot movement, and correlate with all the benchmarks of the plot. I wasn't thinking early enough in the timeline. One more obscure piece of the historical puzzle opened up the story's beginning. Now I can't put it down. Shazam.
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I don't worry too much about length; I checked a while ago when it was just under 100 000, and while it's grown a bit since, it hasn't grown much. The first draft was around 35 000, and it just growed for a while. If something gets ridiculously long, that's probably a sign that it wants cutting; if it doesn't grow to a reasonable length, then I'd wonder whether there's enough material there for a novel.
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