I have just typed the 110,000th word of ‘The Hunted Angel’. It was ‘an’. You can determine from that that the 110,001st word began with a vowel. It was ‘announcement’, which is a bit more interesting, but not much.
It does represent a milestone, though. It means that I am finally into the last 10,000 words of the novel.
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I have just typed the 100,000th word of The Hunted Angel. For what it is worth, the word was think. It won’t remain that way, of course, because the manuscript must be edited, and that will change everything. This leaves somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 words to go,
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‘The Hunted Angel’ now clocks in at 95,102 words, and the 95,102nd word is ‘day’, but it won’t stay that way because the work still must be edited.
By the time that the first draft is finished, I expect that it will be in the region of 120,000 words,
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As of this morning, I am 300 pages into the new book, The Hunted Angel. That equates to 90,000 words. As I type this, I am slightly over that figure – 90,086, to be precise. With what I have left mapped out in my head, there should be about another 30,000 to go before I can begin editing the completed manuscript.
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‘The Hunted Angel’ now runs to 75,000 words. Exactly. Well, according to Word’s word counter, that is. Years of experience have taught me that these things are to be taken with a pinch of salt at the best of times. It will be somewhere near the correct total, though. For the record,
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In my last post, I mentioned how I was homing in on the 60,000-word mark and expected to pass that figure the following day. Well, it was three days late, but I got there. Apologies for the delay. I became distracted with lockdown and the scandals surrounding a certain election,
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The Hunted Angel is developing. According to Microsoft’s ubiquitous word processor, Word, the overall word count currently stands at 58,381 words. It will be higher later today, of course, and may pass the 60,000-word barrier tomorrow.
How accurate that figure may be is anybody’s guess. I once ran the text of a book I had written through Word and a rival word processor,
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This website has been offline for several days. Sorry about that. It was down to technical difficulties beyond my control. To tell the truth, things don’t have to be all that technical to be beyond my control, but there you are. All fixed now, though. Thanks, Mark.
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I am not just a writer, I am also an actor. Well, sort of. A couple of years ago, I was cast in a feature film, entitled ‘Star Warrior – the Legend of Aciris’. With a title like that, it has to be Sci-Fi. I was cast as General Ragtooth.
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As promised in my last post, the first trilogy of ‘Avalind’ books, ‘A King’s Head’ has now been reissued in its smart new Palatino livery. This applies only to the printed editions, of course. The Kindle editions are published in Bookerly (as are all Kindle ebooks) but readers are able to change that to a selection of other fonts (one of which is Palatino,
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