So…I’ve been pulling back from writing so much on my blog because I’ve been trying to work on a larger project. I want to write a whole book. I know what I want it to be about, too. It will be the story of how I went to Russia with my family in 92-93 to be a missionary school-teacher.<\/p>\n
I personally think it’s a great story, one that a lot of people will be interested in. But I’ve never written anything so ambitious. Or so LONG.<\/p>\n
I had been figuring that it would need to be 650 pages. That’s 650 courier font, double spaced pages.<\/p>\n
But I just finished reading a book that’s 361 pages. That’s printed in the book.<\/p>\n
I wondered how that would translate into my format. So I averaged out the number of words on the page. About 481.<\/p>\n
That means the entire book had 173.641 words in it. Approximately.<\/p>\n
I figured I had 216 words to a page. That means, if I had 650 pages, I would have 140,400 words.<\/p>\n
That’s a bit shy.<\/p>\n
I would have to write 800 pages to get close to the length of the book I just read.<\/p>\n
That’s very daunting.<\/p>\n
It makes the fact that I will hit 100 pages today a somewhat hollow celebration.<\/p>\n
..yay…<\/p>\n
only 700 pages to go….<\/p>\n
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So…I’ve been pulling back from writing so much on my blog because I’ve been trying to work on a larger project. I want to write a whole book. I know what I want it to be about, too. It will … Continue reading