InsaneJournal

imaginary lines in the sand
There's something about being past 50,000 words in a manuscript that makes it seem so much more real. With that much text, I'm getting a good idea of my themes and starting to get ways to reinforce them. I've got a good idea of the characters and how they work into the themes and vice versa, or however it works. And I'm beginning to get an idea of how the pacing might work in the novel as a whole--probably a wrong idea, but an idea all the same. Best of all, it feels like an accomplishment to pass 50,000 words, because it is.