It’s been a few months since I made a book update because I was waiting for a special occasion, and I just had one!

I just hit 100,000 words on my novel, and that’s a HUGE hurdle. It’s so big that Word can’t even handle the extra place value in the bottom status bar! As a general rule most people consider 100k words the length of a marketable novel. It can be shorter, but that makes it a little harder to publish. To give you an idea, from what I can find on google Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was 107,000 words. I think my total word count will end up somewhere around 110-115k.

I’ve got six chapters left and they’re special because I have to use them to say “goodbye” to the characters. I’m writing the book through the POV of six or so characters, and each chapter bounces to a new character as the story unfolds. These last six chapters are the final chapters for each characters POV, so not only are they closing out the book, but they need to bring about some sort of closure for each character’s journey. Exciting huh?

You probably won’t see another post until I’m done with the book and begin to edit. I hope everyone is leaving a space open in their summer reading schedule.