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Very close to the end of this draft

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Naomi K
Apr 19, 2019
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I always knew that this draft of my novel would be about six chapters and fifty thousand words long (yes, it's short, but this is within the realm of acceptability for a literary novel). This is one of my talents. I generally know, to within two or three thousand words, how long my books are going to turn out to be.

Coming to the end of a book is a bewil…

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