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| I've done about 3,000 words today. It's not great, but it was the end of the last scene between Carrie and Red before the big all off. Now that's put to bed, I just need to fill a scene with Carrie unable to sleep properly and then we can get down the school. With a bit of luck, the school scene will be done by the end of the week. Then, that just leaves Silver's scene, the cantrap scene, Red's scene down the hospital, Paige and Carrie's scene, and the resolution scene. What do we reckon? 10k for that lot, another 5 for the school? I'm still not really sure how it's going to end, you know. I'm hoping my characters will work it out for themselves. By that time, they should know what they're doing and everything should slot nicely into place. The ending needs to, you know, end this story without making everything blatent or tieing up all the lose ends. After all, it's never 'over' until you're dead, and not even then in Ghosts. Their lives keep going, we just stop watching them. I can't just put them in a box and stuff them on the shelf when I stop writing. That's far, far too unnatural. What's the total word count now? 207,987. Wow, that's a lot. Let's call it 210k, and assume my estimates are right. That gives us . . . 225k. Hmmm. And that means I'm going to need to lose around 90k to get it down to 135k, which is where I want it. Jees. That's 40% of my novel that needs to go. That's a lot. That's more than most people will write in their life times. That's a whole novel, right there. I suppose it means I can be as brutal as I need to be, though. There's a certain freedom there. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. |
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