Raise your glasses to the masses!
This week I smashed past a massive 100,000 words of the latest Alumière adventure, The Cat Wore Black!
100,000 words is about the length of To Kill a Mockingbird.
And I’m only about 80-ish% through the book.
Don’t worry, though. I’m a messy writer, and this is the first draft.
Once I pull out the Red Pen and start deleting, that word count will come right back down again.
I reckon the finished Cat will clock in at a respectable 75,000-80,000 like the others.
Overwrite, then over-edit.
That’s my motto.
For example, I’m currently 18,000 words into a short story, for which I only need about 4,000…
Words, it seems, are a lot like rats…
They’re happier in packs.
Or, to be precise, in mischiefs, which is the collective noun for rats.
And there’s definitely mischief afoot in Hawkinge-By-Hythe, when rats descend upon the town to answer a dead witch’s call for revenge.
Who can the townsfolk call to save them?
The three Alumière sisters: Colette; Victoria, and Gertrude.
By the way, the correct collective noun for Alumières is an intrepid of Alumières.
Chat soon,
Morgan
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