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Filed Under Art of Writing, Novel In Progress 

What’s up with the title of this blog entry, you ask? It’s the current reading on the word-o-meter for the first draft of The Morgan Affair. 31,494 words out of an planned 100,000. That’s 31%. Not too bad, especially when you consider 18,296 of those words were done in the past month. That’s six chapters in one month. I’m rather impressed. If I can keep this pace up, I should have this draft done by the end of May. Spend a month or two on the revisions/polishing, and I’ll be able to start sending out packets to agents by the end of the summer. Being able to do that would be perfect. However, given that much of that revision time would be when the kids are home from school, it’s going to be a challenge. My in-law’s, however, have given us the gift of “we’ll take our grandkids for a week this summer”, so that’ll be a great mini-vacation. If we time it right, I’ll be able to get a lot of work done. Or not. I could just spend that entire week sleeping. :)

So, it’s Monday, and time to think and plan for the week ahead. I may take a break from writing today to do some critting. I’ve got a block of 16 chapters to do. If I get that done, I’ll reward myself with working on Chapter 12.

I’m finding doing a critique of a work in a large block (several chapters at a time) is working better for me than one chapter at a time like we used to do. It gives me a better sense of the big picture, and I don’t have to stop and think about what happened in the last chapter.

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