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7/30/04: Too long a chapter

Word count: 88392 | Since last entry: 2027 | This month: 9744

Another heroic writing day. The chapter is done and printed. Yay! It's also almost ten thousand words long -- by far the longest chapter yet. Boo!

Now, there's no particular reason a chapter has to be a certain length, but I really do feel this one may be too long. Perhaps some of the incidents should be shifted to other chapters, perhaps it's that there's way too much of Jason brooding and computer neepery. (Certainly the whole last half of the chapter takes place almost entirely in Jason's head.) I did trim the worst of yesterday's computer neepery, but then I added a thousand words more today.

Well, at least it's done, and having a draft that needs trimming is better than not having a draft. If it doesn't work, my critiquers will tell me so.

I have blown off a lot to finish this chapter in time. I'll have to catch up on all those things now, and not let myself slack off on the next chapter (like I did this one for the first couple of weeks) either.

Posted 07/30/2004 23:31 [e-mail me] [post comment] [permalink]

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