So I’m on vacation until the first work day of the new year. Among other things on the docket, mostly holiday-related, that I need to do, I thought I would plan to finish the third and final rewrite of the book — final, as in, the manuscript that is agent-ready and something that I would be willing to let someone, like the wife, read over, who isn’t an industry lackey or a literature nut.
I’m currently on chapter 6 out of 28. That means that if I rewrite one and a half chapters a day it will be finished by the time works starts back up, and it will clock me in at about 90k words at the very maximum. But keep in mind that chapters aren’t definitive lengths of text; they are short as well as long. 1.5 is just a goal-setting measurement, easier to maintain than word counts. I just don’t want to be stuck on the laptop on my whole vacation, which is an impossible scenario anyways.
So raise your Queen Anne breast-sized glass filled with the divine nectar and forgo the toast, because I’m going to need all the luck you have to offer.