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They way this novel is coming out of me is just amazing me. Once I figured out who the villain was going to be (my first villain ended up not being evil enough so I made them a minion of the main villain), it just flowed. I've only stopped to do research and even then, it hasn't been that difficult. As of today I have been writing it for 32 days and I'm at 62,547 words for an average of 1,955 words per day. And the day isn't over yet (although I need to start writing this freelance article that's due Friday).
My goal is at least 80,000 words. Which at the rate I'm writing will take 9 more days. But I have a feeling this book is going to go a bit beyond 80,000 words. I have quite a bit of plot still planned.
But I'm still amazed. I've never written a book this quickly. Book of Death was written fairly quickly but the writing of it came to a screeching halt as I realized I didn't know enough about Romania in the 1960s. So I read a couple of books (all of one, part of another) and contacted a Romanian ex-patriot who now lives in the U.S. and she answered a lot of my questions. But this novel is just flowing out of me like it's in a hurry to get written.
Now I might hammer out the first draft in about 41 days. But then comes re-reading, re-writing, and proofreading. And that can take a couple of months. But I'm still impressed with how fast this is going. I just hope I'm keeping the quality up to my standards. If not, the re-writing process will be a drag.
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