An odd day, this. While it went much
more according to plan, in that I started a lot earlier than normal,
I only just passed five thousand for the day, though I did the two
chapters I had in mind when I started. The first one was pretty
difficult, I'm not sure why, looking back, but getting the flow to
fit was not easy – though at least that did mean that all five of
my point-of-view characters were now in play, and that the plots were
all beginning to move forward. That wasn't really the problem –
more that the second chapter ran short, just 2,300 words instead of
the 3,000 I had planned as a minimum...and looking at it again, there
wasn't really anything I could add, nothing that would not have
seemed like padding, in any case. It's actually a good chapter, I'm
happy with it – it is just that it went a lot faster than I'd
expected.
Now, for my purposes, word counts and
word limits are a somewhat artificial measure. I've targeted 140,000
words, but if it ends up running at 130,000 or 150,000, that isn't
really going to be a problem. I'm not dealing with a publisher
demanding a specific length, or anything like that, so I'm not going
to worry about this overmuch. In fact, it might prove a little
liberating; I've felt a bit that I might be setting myself a somewhat
artificial stricture.
Total for today, 5,014 - 986 under
target. Hopefully I'll be able to make this up tomorrow.
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