How I Wrote a Book in 14 Days, Part III
This is the third of a four-part series.
Quoting from my old blog, Feb. 2012:
66,000 words and one day left!
I stopped calculating my per-day average because I’m actually in the home stretch, though it may not look like it. End of business today I cleared 66,649 words total on this ghostwriting project, and I only have one more chapter to go. That chapter will bring me to 70,000 or darn close to it.
Close enough to 70,000 to relax, that is.
Our author, El Jefe, is dashing to Asia for a week, and I’d like to present him with the second half of the book before he leaves Thursday. That’s easily doable.
The reason I’m not worried about hitting 80,000 is that said author has already answered some of my queries on the first half of the MS, supplying extra 4,000 words I can quite reasonably use.
We are so there.
On February 6, we had zero words. Now we have a definite 74,000. Maybe. If El Jefe’s additions to the whole MS are as copious as the first batch, we’ll probably have to cut words. See how that happens?
And do you see, James Patterson, why you should hire me? See contact page for further instructions.
2019 Commentary:
I’m actually kind of surprised seeing this come together so well. I had forgotten that El Jefe got back to me with so many workable additions. Usually I have to wait until the first draft is completely done and the editor has given us his or her notes before receiving that kind of helpful feedback into the extra. So…great! Younger me was actually doing better than 2019 me thought he was.
Patterson never called. I don’t blame him. Novels are a different animal entirely.
If you missed one of these posts, you can catch up here:
How I Wrote a Book in 14 days, Part I
How I Wrote a Book in 14 days, Part II: 55,000 and Counting...
How I Wrote a Book in 14 days, Part III: 66,000 words and One Day Left!
How I Wrote a Book in 14 Days, Part IV: 70,083 words on Day 14
This post first appeared on my old blog in slightly different form on Feb. 20, 2012.
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