Does it really feel like 300k is 75% of the book?
No. Not at all. I’ve said from the beginning that I’d write the book as long as it needed to be to tell the story the right way. My progress bar has always been set at 400k words, which is roughly the length of the longest Wheel of Time books. Very early in the process, I had thought that maybe I could bring it in at that length, but I realized the truth very quickly. There’s just too much going on in this novel to constrict it to any artificial length. It will be as long as it needs to be.
How long will that be? I still can’t tell for certain. For a while (since July) I’ve been saying 600-700k. That still feels right to me. The point I’ve reached right now does feel vaguely halfway, perhaps just a tad less. It’s hard to tell because I’ve never done a book like this before. I also don’t know how much we’ll be adding or editing out in revision even after I get the rough draft done.
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