Chapter 21 came at 1259 with plenty of room to grow in the rewrite (will probably be in the 1800-2000 range). That brings my total for draft zero at 34188.
I hear some of you say, "Chapter 21?" Well, yes. I started working tonight to finish up Chapter 20 (I have one or two more scenes, I think, currently at around 1100 words). But then Chapter 21 wouldn't leave me alone, so I finished it up.
Things are coming out of order again, like they normally do. Hopefully we can keep mostly on track as we head into the third act.
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Funny how chapters go in novels. Since there are no rules, some chapters are long in some books and some are short.
The novel I just finished has eleven. "That's one more than ten, it's like we go to e-lev-en."
Dr. Phil
Dr. Phil, I'm trying to keep all the chapters to under 3000 words (and they vary from 1800-2400 right at the moment). I'm purposely keeping them short to increase the sense of a quick read (at around 75000-80000 for the final - best guess - it should be).
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