by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
When it comes to the nitty-gritty mechanics of writing a novel, I am sometimes at a total loss, still. And because I’m doing all of this is a vacuum — I have no friends and no one likes me — I just have to play it by ear.
And because I gauge everything by scene count not word count — at least not until the very end of the process — I just don’t know what to expect. It could be that even though I have too many scenes, the actual word count will be ok.
This happen with one version of the novel when I had way too many scenes, but actually came in at just about 85,000 words. That happened because I got so excited near the end of the novel that I wasn’t writing very long scenes — I just wanted to get things over with.
But, this time, hopefully, because of AI, if nothing else, that won’t be a problem. I’ll actually write fully-formed scenes and that, by definition, will make the word count longer.
So, I guess what I’m going to do is complete the novel, the do a word count THEN start to figure out what scenes I can do away with.
