Mark Brockman: Thirty-Five?

Monday, July 20

Thirty-Five?

I finished the first draft of chapter one yesterday and cranked out the first draft of the final chapter, chapter eleven, this morning.

Being the geek I am, I made a spreadsheet totaling word counts. Chapter one was 3.5k and chapter eleven a measly 860 words. Averaged, that gives us 2.6k, times eleven gives us 35,000 words.

What? This is supposed to be 60k, hitting the YA market squarely at the average length. Time to start describing landscapes. Eek.

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AlisonJuly 21, 2009 at 8:28 AM
Hmmm. Well, I look forward to reading it when it's finished.
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Thanks for dropping by.

It’s been a year since I stopped writing.

I’ve shelved two works. My first was a confusing time travel piece where I didn’t discover my character’s personalities until halfway in. I do love some of the scenes though. The second is a YA post-apocalyptic travel through the south down to the Florida Keys. It needs a rewrite and the last two chapters written.

I have two ideas in my head, but all the ideas in my flawed superhero YA, I’m not sure I could write them correctly. And, as horribly as I managed the first time-travel work, I have an idea for another. Groan.

Mark Brockman

Monday, July 20

Thirty-Five?

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