Never-ending stories
Apr. 8th, 2007 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienYou probably don't remember, but back at the beginning of February when I joined ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
thing_in_150 I estimated that it would take me 20K words to finish off Ambassador, Vortex and Defector. As it turned out,
Ambassador alone took another 16,379 words; Vortex absorbed another 10,526; and I'm still shoveling words into the bottomless pit that is Defector, which has so far swallowed nearly 16K and still isn't complete at 23,044. Of course, it's possible that they'll shrink somewhat in the rewriting, but that's never happened to me yet.
I hope this doesn't mean that Behemoth 47, when I finally get to it, will turn into a 200 Kword monster! I used to be better than this at projecting length, I think.
thing_in_150 I estimated that it would take me 20K words to finish off Ambassador, Vortex and Defector. As it turned out,Ambassador alone took another 16,379 words; Vortex absorbed another 10,526; and I'm still shoveling words into the bottomless pit that is Defector, which has so far swallowed nearly 16K and still isn't complete at 23,044. Of course, it's possible that they'll shrink somewhat in the rewriting, but that's never happened to me yet.
I hope this doesn't mean that Behemoth 47, when I finally get to it, will turn into a 200 Kword monster! I used to be better than this at projecting length, I think.
