BlueLucario

Hi. I was writing my fight scene, chapter nine-ish. And when I reached chapter six, I lost the pep I had at the beginning I wrote the story was gone. I really wanted to finish this book, I have about 35,000 words written. I plan to reach either 80,000 words or 90,000 words. I lost my enthusiam in my own writing.

Can anyione help me gain it back? This is my first novel.

Thanks.

Cindy17.

Grapefight

Read.

omginternetlord

Just imagine how it'll feel to have finished a book. Not a lot of people can say that.

Wreybies

One should not concern oneself with the verbal summation of a given piece of liturature. (15)

Try not to worry overmuch on the word count. (9)

Don't count the words in your novel. (7)

Don't count words! (3)

Get it?

Your novel should be as long as it needs to be. Not one word longer. And when you have finished, go back and see where you can trim. Often loosing one's pep has to do with getting bogged down in all the filler. Trim the fat, serve the meat!

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littlegreenbob

What some people do is they set out to write a novel. It is their goal and ambition. A novel is defined by the amount of words and there lies the reason they count words.

It does impact the story as scenes are added to 'fatten' out the story but the weaker scenes will go with revision and editing.

So its not unusual to count words and strive for a target, but do note the impact it has on your writing.

My advice re: your issue is that when you write - you should always get the story out first.

I have witnessed writers on this forum trying to perfect a chapter one before they have even written the story. What may happen is they get half way through and realise the story lacks depth or is too weak, or not enough to make a novel length story.

No matter how bad it reads, you should finish your draft 1 before revising it. If you get stuck, write a note describing the scene and move on.

Get the story out, see how it evolves and pans out. Then go back and revise, edit, fatten, contract, and do what is needed to write.

Maybe you could take a break from it, write something else, then go back to it and see how it grabs you when you look at it fresh? THe problem is you may lose interest in it for good.

I hope that helps.