Before my revisions the book was right at 100K words in length. After removing the 4K-word chapter that was gumming the works, and adding the new material, the novel stands in at just under 102K words.
So I ended up adding almost 2K words to the total, despite the big chapter cut.
The ironic thing is that the whole revisionary project was interrupted by my own form of real-life surgery. While I was supposed to be cutting and stitching my book, I found myself in the hospital being cut and stitched by a surgeon.
So it goes.
At any rate, I'm done with the book (barring any further requests for revisions from my agent and/or editors). It felt good to close up that particular shop to get back to my current novel project. I hate looking back. On to the future, and all that.
Here's an interesting bit. Two of my favorite filmmakers, the Coen Brothers, are doing a remake of Charles Portis' novel TRUE GRIT. Portis is one of my favorite novelists, and the Coen Brothers are among my favorite writer/director teams. I am very much looking forward to their version of adapting the book to the screen.
"You're obviously not a golfer."
2 comments:
Let's get that book published!!!
Absolutely. As I said, I generally look forward when I finish a project, but I had a lot of fun reading the manuscript to do the revisions. It's a really good yarn. Lots of neat characters. Even the zombies are cool--Dead Ned's my favorite.
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