Leilanie Stewart

Writing that confronts the nature of self
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Tag Archives: writing word count

  • Last week I finally reached 40,865 words on novel wip #6 after one year of working on this manuscript. This draft will become Book 3 of my [...]

    Manuscript drafting: on reaching the 40k benchmark

    January 23, 2023
  • Recently someone asked me about how many words I tend to aim for when I’m writing a novel. Generally speaking, I tend to aim for 80,000 [...]

    How long should a novel be?

    June 20, 2022
  • I’m up to 40k words on my current novel WIP#5. It’s turning out to be another psychological horror, and quite metaphysical too. I [...]

    Update on current novel work in progress

    June 8, 2022
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