November 28, 2007

An exciting day today, the new manuscript, a literary thriller titled Lake On The Mountain, just topped 50,000 words and it's still climbing. When I started it in August, I expected it to come in around 50,000-60,000 words. Now it looks like it will be closer to 75,000 when completed. That's a good size novel, but not excessively long. (The Great Gatsby, for instance, is 55,000 words and is considered a short novel.) Of course, this is just the first draft so it's not easy to say exactly what lies ahead.