Chapter 66 increased in size by 2.5%. (Really, more like it increased by 10%, then I cut the chapter down.)
Whew. 67 edited. That took a lot of work. A lot added, a lot cut. End result: Cut by 7.8%. 3 chapters and epilogue left. (About 100 pgs.)
Heh. Line from Towers of Midnight said: “And Rand did such and such.” Brain keeps reading “Ayn Rand.” Did Goodkind sneak over and rewrite my manuscript?
5% cut from the last of the three ‘Needs special attention” chapters I just revised, added to, and edited. Gets easier from here out.
These are manuscript pages, so in print, that would be more like 50 pages.
Typed in new wordcount for chapter. Excel spreadsheet responds: Chapter size increased by 748%. Uh, think I left a number off somewhere…
After a typo fix in the spreadsheet: Chapter 69 cut by 15.2%. 50 [manuscript] pages left to revise.
Before I left, I almost got chapter 70 done. Finished now, 4% cut. I’ve been over it often in other drafts, and didn’t need as much a trim.
Onward to the epilogue; it’s 6k words long.
12% cut from first scene of the epilogue. Five to go.
6.8% cut from the next scene. Four to go.
Well, look at this. One last person in the epilogue I forgot to name. Glenn Bergevin. You’re in. 7% cut from the scene you are in.
13.9%. Two short scenes left.
12.2%. One more to go.
And…13.4% from the last scene. Book length is 320,286 words. 42,614 words cut. 11.7%. About 5k more than Knife of Dreams ; 4th longest in the series.
Hold off on celebrating TOO much, though. Needs a spellcheck, and a spot fix some problems Team Jordan has mentioned about earlier chapters.
Then it gets sent to a secret cabal of beta readers (no, you can’t join them. Sorry.) I spot fix problems they find, then a last quick draft.
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