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Slogging away at the novel.
Jun. 13th, 2009 12:27 pmI am, I think, finally committed to The Hellion Prince as my next project; I have 27,000+ words written, in nonlinear, fragmentary scenes (I estimate at least 10k of these words will be cut eventually, but still).
This is a much bigger book than I thought it was.
Running In Her Veins, when all was said and done, tallied up at 91,723 words. That's not a very long novel, maybe 300 pages at most. I knew Hellion Prince would be longer - maybe half as long again, I estimated, a nice respectable 400-pager.
Even if I assume those 10k words of fluff are going to be cut... I'm not even ten percent done with the damned thing. Even if I were, 170,000 words is still Later Harry Potter Territory, and more than that... yikes.
Presuming I ever finish this, how the Hell will I sell it?
This is a much bigger book than I thought it was.
Running In Her Veins, when all was said and done, tallied up at 91,723 words. That's not a very long novel, maybe 300 pages at most. I knew Hellion Prince would be longer - maybe half as long again, I estimated, a nice respectable 400-pager.
Even if I assume those 10k words of fluff are going to be cut... I'm not even ten percent done with the damned thing. Even if I were, 170,000 words is still Later Harry Potter Territory, and more than that... yikes.
Presuming I ever finish this, how the Hell will I sell it?
