draft two complete!

After 9 months of work (7 days per week, averaging about 3 hours per day), I finished draft two today!

Seeing those numbers there prompts me to do a bit of math.

…Wow. 810 hours of work.

Put that in perspective: that’s like working a fulltime 40 hour/week job for five months. Like starting on January first and working until almost June.

Speaking of which: one thing that I had no idea of when I started this project was how much WORK it would take to write a novel. I naively thought that it might an hour to write a page, hence 350 hours to write a book. And, because I was under the spell of bad advice from Robert Heinlein that one should never revise, I thought that the first draft would be about all the work I’d have to do.

Some stats on draft two:

  • book 1: 114,911 words = 459 pp
  • book 2: 112,324 words = 449 pp
  • total: 227,235 words = 908 pp
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