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Word count -- The Mourning Edition.
Sep. 11th, 2008 12:53 pmCurrent stats:
Words: 6,080.
Total words: 23,810.
Reason for stopping: I'm done with chapter four!
Music: mostly Rob Zombie. Hey, it's topical.
Lilly: dead to the world in the middle of my glow-in-the-dark spiderweb pillow.
Like Newsflesh, The Mourning Edition is a novel internally divided into 'books.' (Hey, it's a fun structure to play with, and my happy zombie wonderland was the first chance I really got to take advantage of it. Besides, it's nicely confusing, because it makes the answer to "How's the book going?" entirely unpredictable.) I am now four chapters into Book I, and it looks like Book II is going to start with chapter six. I'm one chapter away from the end of Book I. Also, since the chapters are averaging roughly twenty pages each, I'm one chapter away from hitting the hundred-page mark.
Excuse me while I blink a lot and go 'um, dude.' It's interesting: I understand that I write a lot, and I understand that my 'rotate projects so that everything stays fresh and engaging and you get more done' method of approaching books means that they gain page count at a scary rate, but I'm always a little tweaked when I hit a hundred pages. That's my internal watermark for 'sorry, you've devoted too much time; can't walk away now.'
It's too late to walk out on this book.
Secretly, I'm glad.
Words: 6,080.
Total words: 23,810.
Reason for stopping: I'm done with chapter four!
Music: mostly Rob Zombie. Hey, it's topical.
Lilly: dead to the world in the middle of my glow-in-the-dark spiderweb pillow.
Like Newsflesh, The Mourning Edition is a novel internally divided into 'books.' (Hey, it's a fun structure to play with, and my happy zombie wonderland was the first chance I really got to take advantage of it. Besides, it's nicely confusing, because it makes the answer to "How's the book going?" entirely unpredictable.) I am now four chapters into Book I, and it looks like Book II is going to start with chapter six. I'm one chapter away from the end of Book I. Also, since the chapters are averaging roughly twenty pages each, I'm one chapter away from hitting the hundred-page mark.
Excuse me while I blink a lot and go 'um, dude.' It's interesting: I understand that I write a lot, and I understand that my 'rotate projects so that everything stays fresh and engaging and you get more done' method of approaching books means that they gain page count at a scary rate, but I'm always a little tweaked when I hit a hundred pages. That's my internal watermark for 'sorry, you've devoted too much time; can't walk away now.'
It's too late to walk out on this book.
Secretly, I'm glad.
