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150,000 Words!

Momentum is building rapidly in the final act of my novel. I have written more this week than in the past three months. It has taken me time to get back into the flow, to live and breath the characters. Once my base draft is complete I will be able to work more haphazardly on the book in edit mode. As by its very nature the edit will require a print, and a read, and another read and so on which will naturally steep me in the book, its characters, their motivations, connections and the narrative.

When you are writing for the first time however you are on the bleeding edge of the story and need all that history in your head. Its taken me three months to reactivate that essence fully after a rather long hiatus (~approx three years). Now the words are just flowing out.

As of such I breached the 150,000 word mark today! My previous novel was 155,000 words to put it in some perspective. I'm not obsessed with the number of words but it is a fairly good yardstick; not so much to make it "long enough" rather to ensure its not too long.

The last few chapters are on the horizon now and my intent is to finish it over the next week.

Based on the story matter and the reasoning behind "Infinity Drive" as a working title and where the story has managed to go in the past six years I have decided to graduate the working title to a full title.

As for why, and for what "Infinity Drive" means you'll just have to buy the book! :-)

posted by Matthew Woodget @ 2:16 PM