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blgarver:
Hey everyone.

My current baby (which also happens to be the current monkey on my back) is about 50k words right now.  I've tried to avoid editing anything before I finish it, so I'm sure on the rewrite it will lose a lot of fat. 

I don't outline or anything like that, but I estimate that the story is almost half way done.  Unless something mutates in my mind again.  It already evolved from quick, simple, 300-400 page speculative fiction adventure story to somewhat complex intro book which will require at least one sequel.

I always do that.  For the love of mike I just want to write a single story!  My other baby I've been trying to write since I was 12, and now that's turned into this big bad monster that constantly hangs over my head, gnawing at me.

Anyway, good luck to you all! 

long days, pleasant nights
B. L. Garver

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
The thing I finished first draft of at the end of October, first half of a duology*, is almost dead on a hundred thousand words.  From previous experience, that will probably go down by about 10% all the way through on further passes.

The thing I read back through and tightened since then, is 149,048 words. I want to reread the end of that where I made most of the changes on this pass one more time to be sure it flows, and then I'll be thinking about finding it a home.

*I'm not sure whether to call it one book or two, but at that length it's unlikely to be bound as one physical object; first half is fairly standard story-shaped adolescent protagonist in world-saving situation, second half will be same character middle-aged with two kids discovering the world's not as saved as it appeared and having family responsibilities and not just being able to rush off and have adventures any more. The gap between them is sort of "and then we went away and became fishmongers and did nothing with the plot nature for the next twenty-two years".

Dom:
I've 9,000 words of a new story that spontaneously started crawling out one day.  Never thought I'd be one to write dragons.  Huh.

Of course, now my attention has shifted off of the first story, darnnit!  And entirely, these two are from totally different worlds.

resurrectedwarrior:
Uh . . . depends on which draft. First draft, which totally sucks, is 130,000. Second draft is 60,000 and counting. I'm hoping to keep it below 100,000 . . .

Richelle Mead:
Just finished edits on my YA vampire novel, taking me from 58k to 75k.  Not sure what my editor'll have to say about that.  After that, I'm between projects until next year when I'm contracted to write 300k words via 2 adult novels, 1 YA, and a novella.  Eek.

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