Sunday, March 25, 2012

Weekly Writing Check-In: Chapter 8, why.

Had a fairly busy week again, but I still managed to sneak in some editing and writing time...somewhere. Anyway, I'm Chapter 8 now, and when I opened it it was 35 pages and 20k words. WELL OKAY THEN. I think that's the record for this novel. I mean, I write long chapters as it is anyway, but even for me this is kinda ridiculous. I'm almost through and have it down to a whole spankin' 34 pages (on the readthrough, i'm sure it'll go down further once I hit search and destroy mode) but I'm laughing to myself. It's taking a whole week to edit this chapter. At least it's mostly dialogue!

That's all for this week, really, but I guess I'll throw a question in here anyway to make it more worth your time: What's the longest chapter you've ever written? Aaaaand go!

5 comments:

  1. A 20k chapter? O_O Chapter eight of my latest WiP finishes at 20k.

    My biggest chapter used to be 9k, but got split during a rewrite, so now my biggest is not quite 7k.

    20k chapter ... if it were me, it would get cleft in twain.

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    1. The manuscript (not including the thousands taken off in the first 7 chapters during this edit) topped over 300k (yay serial fantasy with lots of plot lines going on). I believe it's about 32 chapters long. 20k used to be the norm for me in my chapters, but I'm down to about 10k now. This one just happened to have a couple really long dialogue driven scenes, so it doesn't read like 20k, at least!

      The most that happens is that I may merge some scenes because it was more confusing having them split to begin with =P

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  2. Oh my gosh! 20,000 words for one chapter! I'm at chapter 10 and my total word count is almost 25,000. Granted my whole story will be somewhere between 60,000 and 80,000.

    I have no idea how long my biggest chapter has been, but it can't be more than 5,000.

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    1. Yeah, as I said above, the manuscript was 300k+ when I started editing (I think it may be under now since I've cleaved off about 10k so far). 20k is not a norm for me really, but it does happen occasionally!

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  3. You know I don't know. I've never really looked. I think I tend to write shorter chapters than you though. :p

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