Word Count

[przed]

Just broke 20,000 words on the Pros story:

20,109 / 50,000 (40.2%)

Let there be rejoicing.

In other writing news:

My santa_pros assignment has been beta'd, edited and sent off.

My muncle Down the Chimney assignment is not only not finished, it isn't even started. I really have to get to work on that one.

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[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Just broke 20,000 words on the Pros story:

20,109 / 50,000
(40.2%)

Just out of curiosity, how do you know how many words a story is going to be? Or is this for a challenge of sorts? And 50,000? That's going to be some story! :-)

My muncle Down the Chimney assignment is not only not finished, it isn't even started. I really have to get to work on that one.

Mine is finally off the ground after losing and then having to rewrite the first scene. Saying I was upset is putting it mildly.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Just out of curiosity, how do you know how many words a story is going to be?

Experience, mostly. I usually work from at least a basic outline, and I know about how many words each scene or incident is going to take me to write. With the new one, the set up is just now complete and I've got three major complications to get through, which I reckon are going to take 15,000 words each. So, I'm figuring it's going to take about 65,000 words. In the actual writing, it could end up being a bit less or a lot more, depending on how chatty the characters get and what unexpected complications they throw at me.

You have my sympathy on losing the scene. I overwrote a story file a couple of years ago and I was apoplectic. Never did think the re-write was quite as good as the original.

Original answer deleted because, wow, I didn't read your question quite right, did I? *g*

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Experience, mostly. I usually work from at least a basic outline, and I know about how many words each scene or incident is going to take me to write. With the new one, the set up is just now complete and I've got three major complications to get through, which I reckon are going to take 15,000 words each. So, I'm figuring it's going to take about 65,000 words. In the actual writing, it could end up being a bit less or a lot more, depending on how chatty the characters get and what unexpected complications they throw at me.

That makes sense. For some reason I've always thought more along the lines of "pages," so I've never looked to see how many words any story of mine might have. I'll have to look into that.

You have my sympathy on losing the scene. I overwrote a story file a couple of years ago and I was apoplectic. Never did think the re-write was quite as good as the original.

Yeah, that's the impression I'm getting, that the original version was better. I remembered a lot of it but, still, I wish there had been someway to retrieve it.

Original answer deleted because, wow, I didn't read your question quite right, did I? *g*

Lol, oh, I've been there.

[przed.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. For some reason I've always thought more along the lines of "pages,"

I think it was grad school that trained me to think of story length in number of words. That and the fact that I compulsively hit the Word Count command in Word when I'm bored and hit a snag in the story. *g*