The 25-Day Novel Challenge: Day Sixteen

WORD COUNT: 66,098/66,098 (WRITING PHASE: COMPLETE)

Yes, you read that right. As of today, I finished the first draft of The Superhero’s Test. Yay!

Now, I know that I said I was aiming for 75,000 words, but the story ended up being 9,000 words shorter and I generally dislike padding out a story. A story should be as long as it needs, whether that is 5,000 words or 50,000 words, and no more or less. I might add some more words during the editing phase, but I doubt it will be more than a couple thousand words or so, if even that much, since the story is pretty complete as is.

According to LibreOffice, the book is 220 pages, so if I edit 40 pages a day, as is my goal, then it should take me five days to edit the whole book. That will leave four more days for my copy editor to fix any little typos or errors I made, and since she works very fast and this book isn’t very long, I might be able to actually publish this book before Day 25. I sure hope I can, because it would be awesome to write, edit, and publish a novel in 25 days.

So tomorrow I will start work on the editing phase. I will also probably start writing Book 2, which I will discuss more about here in the coming weeks.

Now, without further ado, let us go to Day 17 and to the final leg of the 25-Day Novel Challenge!