Date: 2008-03-30 14:40 Subject: Too many words! Security: Public Tags: dragons of mars, novel

It takes me forever to get my characters anywhere these days.

For example, it's just taken me almost 8,000 words to crash my airship. This would be okay if I was writing Fat Fantasy^TM, but this is supposed to be a kids' book. There was a time when 8,000 words would have been a substantial proportion of one of my books.

Now I've dropped my characters in the middle of the Martian wilderness, hundreds of miles from where they're supposed to be, and I have no idea how they're going to get where they're going. Nor how many words it's going to take to get them there.

One day, I expect to write a novel in which no one manages to get anywhere at all. ;)

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