The 25-Day Novel Challenge: Day Seven

WORD COUNT: 28,020/75,000

Welcome to Day Seven of The 25-Day Novel Challenge! I managed to hit my quota for the day before lunch, which is always great, because it allows me to use the rest of the day for anything else I need or want to do.

But I think the novel is not going to be exactly 75,000 words long. It might be shorter–say, 55k or 60k words–because it is starting to feel like the ending is close. How close, I can’t say, and of course I might be wrong and it might be longer, but that’s what my gut is telling me at the moment and my gut usually isn’t wrong.

Because I’ve written so many novels, I have a very good idea of how long a book will be and how long it will take to finish it, even though I never outline and usually don’t know what the ending will be until I actually write it. It’s an instinctive process, one that helps me figure out whether the ending is just around the corner or if it is still a ways down the road.

Granted, sometimes this feeling is wrong and a novel ends up being longer or shorter than I think it will be, but by and large it is usually correct. So I’ve learned to listen to it most of the time, which is why I think this novel might not end up being 75,000 words long. That doesn’t bother me too much, since length does not seem to be a super important part of the superhero genre, but I am going to see if I can at least make it 60k.

Anyway, that’s all for now. On to Day Eight!