no, no, not done

[aamcnamara]

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.

Comments

[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.)

[aamcnamara]

I tend to categorize it as middle-grade more than YA; 40,000 is on the low end for middle-grade, but it is a decent number. It just seems weird, I think, because I hang out mostly with writers who do non-MG and mostly non-YA fiction.

Thank you!

[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.