Divergence

Today the novel manuscript diverges from its previous road and takes a new path toward completion. In the end, Part One was about as solid as I had expected it would be, and the rewrite was fairly quick as a result. The final word count is roughly 50,000, which will make the novel about 130,000 words total, as I mentioned before.

There are still a few good chunks I might pull from the old Chapters 7-11, but these will only be filler for the new work; a paragraph here, a description there. My outline for Part Two is radically different from what it was in the first iteration of the novel, and I need to stick to it if the piece is to be successful as a whole.

In other news, I still have two stories out for consideration in two very different markets and one poem I'm about to pull from the 'Out' file and resubmit elsewhere due to lack of response. I've received a preliminary response back from a lovely Heathen magazine about the possible inclusion of a non-fiction piece in an upcoming issue, but as usual, I can't discuss the specifics until I've been given leave to do so.

That's all for today.