Well, I don't know where I was in my epic up-and-coming novel last time I talked to you about it, but, having absolutely NOTHING to do all day long these days, I've been working like crazy on it, and I'm proud to announce that I am currently up to a whopping 41,428 words. That's 92 and a quarter pages, 12 point font, 1.5 spacing, normal word margins. Don't be fooled though. 92 and a quarter pages on the computer is prolly like, 200+ pages in an actual book.
In case you don't know, and I know for a fact that you don't, the acceptable word count for a novel is between 40,000 and 80,000, words, give or take a few thousand depending on the publishing company. And if you're a brand new baby author like me, you can absolutely not go over 100,000 words.
I know you're prob. thinking, "Well, that's lovely GP. But I don't really give a &$!#."
Guess what though? You should, because it's kind of a problem considering I'm not even half-way done with the story yet. I mean, I thought I was, but then I got to thinking about the massive amount of detail that needs to go into the latter part of the storyline, and I was like "Whoa. No waaay I can keep this under 100,000 words!"
Anyway, I just thought you should be aware of my writing woes since you were going to be my manager once, remember?
Position's still open.
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