Woman of Letters

Woman of Letters

Novel is kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilling me

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Naomi K
Jan 18, 2014
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Just did a count of all the words in my Scrivener doc and I find that I've written at least 103,000 words while working on this novel. However, the current draft is (so far) only 43,000 words long. That means I've discarded over 60,000 words so far. The discarded chapters are piling up so fast that it's actually difficult for me to mine them for the bit…

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