How far into your novel are you?

by Adrian Sroka
2nd February 2014

How many words have you written?

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Ha - Debbie, you're quite right!!

I did 113K in book 1 and 112K in book 2 - both finished counts. I actually removed a lot from 1 and strangely enough found I needed to add to 2. That was a bit weird - adding stuff instead of cutting it out.

I guess I'm about 25-30k into book 3 and it's hard going. But, then again, it always is :)

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Jonathan Hopkins
02/02/2014

Novel one consigned to the compost heap...92K words

Novel two probably around 80K words and growing still, working towards the final chapters of first draft

I tend to split the story up in different folders, so there is not one single word count

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Way too many :P

99.5k for book 1.

120k for book 2 (needs full edit)

56k and rising for book 3.

Onwards and upwards!

Debbie x

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