I am still editing To Sleep. No big surprise there.
What is the surprise is the word count. I ended it at 100,858. That gave me a lot of room for deleting the unnecessary. A few days ago, it dipped down to just over 98K which was fine. Still plenty of room.
I just saved it and happened to glance at the word count. 100,419.
Are the shoemaker’s elves coming in here in the mornings and adding stuff while I sleep?? I am beginning to think so.
Granted, I am adding a lot. Clarifying a few things. But none of it is unnecessary. Still, I am deleting sentences and paragraphs. I cut a huge chunk earlier. Yet, I am again over 100K.
How gloriously odd indeed.
I just checked the submissions guidelines for my publisher and their cut-off is 120K so I don’t have to hack and slash to make it fit. Or make an immediate sequel.