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[devi]

Woo yay! and other such exclamations of delight.

Goddamn I'm exhausted now. But that was a lot of fun, even with the sore shoulders. I must have more deadlines. Deadlines are my friend.

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[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Well... I'm a lousy cheat and it isn't a whole novel. I bent the rules to just mean 50,000 words on my works in progress, which is actually two books and a pile of travel articles I'm going to try and sell. But it's words! And some of them aren't crap!

I reckon it'd be very hard to do a finished, proper novel in less than a year. The only one I've finished (for some values of finished; I'm having to rewrite it now) took me about fifteen months from initial idea to printing it out and putting it in an envelope, and I wasn't working for a chunk of that.

[ratmmjess.livejournal.com]

50,000 words is 50,000 words is an average of 1.666K words per day, every day, which I think is more than respectable. Not cheating at all. Especially if the words aren't crap. :-)

My problem with my novel is that a) it's historical, so I've got a huge amount of research to do before I'll feel comfortable writing more than the odd vignette; b) it's obscure historical, so the research isn't easy; and c) the style I'm going for is going to require multiple drafts. I may not finish this thing for two years, at least.