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I refuse to believe that this is actually a draft; I am still somewhere in the middle of the swamp, slogging. I just ran out of words.

Still and all--44,100 words, or 224 pages in MS Word.

Which is shorter than the first novel I won NaNoWriMo with. Shorter than any novel to win NaNoWriMo, too (the first novel I won NaNo with was 75k). Nearly half the length of the zeroth draft of this, finished the summer after I graduated high school. And yet...and yet...

Darnit, now I have to follow through on the rest of that resolution and write a query letter. (Weirdly, that is the most real thing right now.) And sometime in the New Year, I will dig out all those manuscripts from VP and figure out how terrible my prose is.

And then maybe I will query agents on a novel.

Um. Okay. Wow. Hi.

I just finished revising a novel.

Date: 2011-12-31 05:25 am (UTC)
jazzfish: A cartoon guy with his hands in the air saying "Woot." (Woot.)
From: [personal profile] jazzfish
*wild cheering*

Um. Is the (lack of) length going to be a problem? (I have no sense of how long YA novels often are.)

Date: 2012-01-01 01:39 am (UTC)
jazzfish: Jazz Fish: beret, sunglasses, saxophone (Default)
From: [personal profile] jazzfish
... right, we've had this conversation, and somehow I keep blanking on "middle-grade" and turning it into "YA" in my head. Sorry about that; will try to actually remember it this time.

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