74K. Didn't realize I'd gone so long without a post. Doesn't seem right, actually. Be that as it may, the synopsis is done and vastly better than it was. I have one agent query letter pretty ready to go. The Heir is coming along. I don't have the proper distance at the moment, but I do have a handwritten list of things I need to do. I was freaking the other day because I'm only at 70K words and how on earth would I add 80 pages when the story seemed basically done? Then I realized I had a couple of major threads unaccounted for, oh, say, like the murder and Pansy's lack of social skills. So getting that done will help push me to 80K I think and at that point, pulling everything together will probably take care of things more or less. Today, I ended up splitting two chapters in two. They were too long. Anyway, the hot parts are increasingly hot, the good parts getting there, and I'm seeing more ways of working the characters. But, as I said, I don't have the proper distance yet to know whether or not maybe the whole thing just sucks.
posted by Carolyn @ 6/06/2004 04:49:00 PM Permalink
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