FIRST DRAFT IS DONE!

Provrb1810meggy said:

I have completed the first draft of my novel, PREEK. It's 62,548 words (yay for finally having a novel that's not way too short for the market) and is 250 pages. I don't know why I included the page number; it's just because it seemed hefty, probably.

I think I've been working on it since June, but I really don't remember. You would think I'd keep track of these things, but nope, I don't.

Anyway, just wanted to congratulate myself. Hurrah.

Also, congratulations to roskoebaby for completing her novel in a week. That's freaking ridiculous and unnatural, but still, congratulations to her!

Anyone else nearing completion of their first drafts? It's so exciting to get near the end. I've been thinking, you're almost there, you're almost there, for days. Now I'm there!

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Sage said:

It's really good for YA, but a little short for non-YA (in the agents' eyes. I was more likely to read longer books when I was a teen than now, but that's another matter). When shooting for 50K during NaNo, I wrote books at 60K both years, & I guess my subconscious decided that HEVN SNT should be about the same length as AFTRLYF. I'd like to add a subplot to AFTRLYF, but the ones in there are all so well-integrated into the plot that I can't imagine working in something else & making it look like anything other than something I tacked on later.

My fanfics felt novel length, but were usually about 30K. I could have made a novel out of the trilogies though, if I combined all three parts. You know, if they weren't fanfic

Ironically, I came to AW looking for an acceptable word count range for EoS. It was too long. Halfway done & it was about 90K. It's now 116K, and was 130K when I finished. I don't even want to consider the length it would have been if I hadn't taken a knife to the first several chapters before I was done writing it.

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Sage said:

Aw, I'm sure they don't suck. Give a longer story a try!

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