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Well after a hellish first three chapters that are STILL a mess and will need a total of FOUR drafts before I can send them out into the world, I’ve reached chapter four of Meka. And thank god. I was starting to think I couldn’t write at all. Chapter four, however, has been brilliant. There were whole pages that needed NO edits. I had to leave a mark on the bottom of the page so I would know I had ‘edited’ it. I stopped today before a scene that I know is a mess and I generally dislike. Thinking about re-writing it tomorrow. Otherwise, it looks like we’re back into smooth sailing territory. Now, for those of you who are not on Holly Lisle’s mailing list, she has recently started a survey to find out just how much it costs the average person to write a novel. Currently (as I am writing this) over 450 people have taken the survey. Holly is hoping to have several thousand people take it in total. If you have not taken it already, please take it here. If you are just curious about the results so far, you can see them in depth here. Right now, however, the summary is that it costs the average person $26,563.56 US dollars to complete a novel. This does not count computer costs, pens, ink, paper or anything just that. This is just what it costs in TIME. No really. (Please note, Holly says some things toward the end of the results about planning novels before writing them. I do not support the information she provides there. We all write differently and what works very well for Holly may not write for you. I certainly don’t work that way.)
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