Practice Means Progress

I sat down yesterday to finally put together all those little scenes and chapters and whatnots of my novel, hoping that they would create some form of a cohesive whole and give me an idea of how much I have left to do.

My cousin and writing/running mate has requested statistical update. Here it is...

With a little less than half a year left, my novel-in-progress clocks in at:

* 30 chapters
* 156 pages (Yes, I was shocked...)
* Roughly 39,000 words

This is significantly short of the 50,000 words I was aiming for, but then I still haven't reached the end of the manuscript. Damn, novel writing takes more stamina than mud wrestling a boar...
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Kaeli said…
Haha, thank you for the update. How do you have 30 chapters in 156 pages?? I have 150 pages and only 22 chapters! Wait a minute...are you double spacing?? Or no?
July 11, 2010 at 12:29 PM
Alex Newman said…
Hmmm...I dunno. Yeah, that's mostly double-spaced I think. But I have a few pages not entirely transcribed, so maybe that's it.

I was really surprised that I wasn't farther along actually. Oh well. Half a year left, I suppose.
July 11, 2010 at 3:56 PM
Kaeli said…
It's actually quite funny...because we're at exactly the same spot basically in our books. I have 153 pages, and 38,000 somethingish words.
July 11, 2010 at 4:14 PM
Alex Newman said…
Haha, you know you're right! Home stretch, cousin, home stretch!! :)
July 12, 2010 at 11:59 AM
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