Keith Graham

I’m up to 35,000 words in my novel. I have been doing between 1,000 and 1,500 words a night.

I am rapidly approaching what may be the end, but I need the novel to be more than 60,000 words, preferably as much as 100,000 words.

Tonight I am going back to the beginning and add a little meat to the first few chapters. Originally, I was writing them like short stories. Short stories are terse, getting to the point quickly. In novels, you have to spend more words to set the scene, flesh out the characters, and include lots of conversation.

I am not sure that I’ll get to 60,000. If not, I’ll self-publish, but I’d like to get this out through a real publishing house.