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Novel Update.

Posted 09-29-2008 at 09:21 by bhdean
As promised, I am keeping my friends up to date on the progress of my novel. I have completed almost 10 pages since my last post and I am very proud of that fact. It may seem like such a small amount of progress but at this rate, it may only take 6 months instead of 2 years to complete it. I am not totally convinced that I am doing everything correctly with this effort, but I am trying to learn as I go. I have heard that some writers make a complete outine before they even start a novel and follow...
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Another Chapter Down

Posted 09-22-2008 at 13:10 by bhdean
I have completed another chapter in my novel and a lot of interesting questions have come up. When I first took up pen and paper to attempt to write a novel, I began with chapter lengths of about 5 pages. This last chapter I wrote has in excess of 20 pages. Do all chapters need to be the approximately the same length? My wife like to have short chapters so she can read an entire chapter before going to bed. When I read a book, I don't worry about how long a chapter is because I will lay the book...
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Continuing the Novel

Posted 09-01-2008 at 11:31 by bhdean
I just finished 7 more pages in my novel and have come to the conclusion that writing a novel takes more time than reading one. So far I have written 105 hand written pages for a total of about 25,000 words. It has taken me 2 years to get this far and it may take me 2 more to finish it. If an average novel is about 100,000 words (just guessing here), that means I am only a fourth of the way finished with it. If I set this one aside after I finish it and start the next one (that's what is recommended,...
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