I have FINALLY completed editing the first part of Wayback. Its word count is 48,242. Never did I think I would actually get a single thing with that many words. So, you think ‘Hey, that’s pretty good! When will it be published?’ And I would say ‘HA!’
At only 48K, the first part would only be a Novella. To be considered a Novel, it would need to be a minimum of 50K up to 110K. The understanding, however, is that anything under 70,000 is not big enough to be a novel. Check out this page on the Fiction Factor site for more information.
With the Wayback Part 1 at 48,242; Middle at a mere 5226; and the Ending at just 5812: I still have a way to go yet with a total of 59,280 words. My aim is to get to a minimum of 80K. That means the Middle will need to get at the least another 20K to get me there. I don’t expect the Ending to get much bigger.
Meanwhile I have signed up for that 2yr project. The writing for it won’t really start until about June so perhaps by then…
In Real Life, we had a dusting of snow this morning. Of course, its all gone now. I didn’t have any appts for today and already took care of the one for Thursday. Friday I have PT again. What a boring life I have! I need to mention that I am surrounded by 6 napping dogs. At least they don’t snore!