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dragons-and-yellow-roses · 2 months ago

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Up to 20,384 words, which feels insane, and I renamed the characters I didn't like the names of! My main character went from Skye to Jules, a side character named after my friend's crush became Olivia, and the one named after my gf became Chloe. While writing this post I realized Chloe was too close to Clio, the name of another side character, so Clio became Faye. That was the smallest, easiest problem to fix out of all the problems, but the whole name situation was really bothering me so I'm glad I changed it tbh

Delighted to announce that my story has officially reached novella length! I truly didn't think it would get this far, and didn't think I would be able to stick with it to get it this long. According to Wikipedia, a novella is 17,500-40,000 words, and I'm currently at 17,714. And I'm going to keep writing for awhile tonight. I'm just super proud of this

#names are important to me and all of those names were placeholders #like those three side characters were names of people i know irl just because they were the first names i thought of #but i didnt want characters named after real people in my life. it just feels strange #and also theres a character named Kristine. halfway through i started spelling is Christine. so i fixed that too #insane that i got so far today #unfortunately i write monologues that rival brennan lee mulligan in length so thats all gonna be shortened in edits #one of my characters is currently possessed by a demon and the demon is going to kill her abusive parents #so thats fun. im looking forward to that. its like the next scene. im actually pretty damn close to the end #im just kind of avoiding the end because its what im least clear on #the magic stuff is what im most shaky on and its a lot of (magic stuff happens. now theres a demon)#but ill get there. mostly for a first draft i didnt want to get hung up and caught on details #so i just wrote notes and pushed through #and thatll be fixed in future drafts #anyway i just love this story so much and im having so much fun with it tbh

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