Fan / Flail!

[sakon76]

Wonderful Husband figured out how to fix the fan, and it is now stuck back into/onto the ceiling, giving us light and a gentle breeze once more. We also went out and finally procured curtain rods for the office and two bedrooms. I know what we'll be doing tomorrow and next weekend....

And I edited. Chapter 16 done, which is as good a stopping place as any. Page 382/610, and word count 122,175. 411 words down, and 28 more pages done to boot. Except now I'm looking at that word count and wondering if I'm going to find 2,175 words to cut in the next 128 pages....

Regardless, I now have all my ducks in a row (or eggs in the same basket) and all the primary characters are assembled at King's Castle. And the sugar succubus (aka stalker girl) has finally made her debut.

Comments

[flybystardancer.livejournal.com]

I'm curious... How much leeway do you have in the word count? And why is it 120k? Is that related to the class, to a publisher's guideline, a personal challenge, something else?

I've rarely had a problem with maximum word count limits in my own writing... Generally I would struggle to reach the minimum!

[sakon76.livejournal.com]

Of the handful of SF publishers who actually post their guidelines on their websites, 120K seems to be their upper limit. I think there was only one that went over. (The other half of the SF publishers only do a snooty "we do not accept unsolicited manuscripts" note, which is NOT HELPFUL.)

I suspect I'm not going to be able to cut 2,175 words in the last seven chapters; OTOH, as Wonderful Husband pointed out, this is only the first editing pass. I should hopefully be able to tighten it up more on successive rounds.