pushing onward
June 14th, 2007 by MelanieThrough the mire of a WIP, I continue forward. I’m in the homestretch of the first draft. Although It’ll only be about 2/3 the length of any of my Dragon series books, this will be exactly where it needs to for the YA market. I started reading from the beginning to get a better picture of what the mood and pacing is and find that I like it. The pacing is perfect, as far as I can tell, but the scenes are short and to the point. Reading through the first 50 pages flew past. I think this one’s a keeper, despite that it’s all from a male perspective and I have had to write more slowly to concentrate on pulling that off. Writing the opposite gender can be difficult.
I could push ahead at a breakneck pace and finish this in a week if I really wanted, at least from this point. I’m maybe 5-7 chapters from “The End”, or about 10K (or a few more) words. I wrote that much on New Year’s weekend to finish the first draft of Dragon Child, I can do this!
How do I know? Because I’ve been here many times. I know what has to happen and I can estimate fairly well about how many scenes will come and approximately how long they’ll be. Strange how that happens. At least I can see that it will fall exactly where it should for the genre–60K-70K words.
So, with the finish line in sight, the race is on!
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