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Thanks to my dear online friends for suggesting that I might be better off not slashing my 180,000 word novel down to the customary 95,000 words (I initially wrote about that here). My sweet husband was on the same wave length late last week, when I asked for his help with a spreadsheet that I’d put together — and proceeded to follow in error. Haha — ulp! — for a week and a half, I’d been diligently slicing and dicing way too much! Horrors, I’d mentally transposed my ‘page length’ goal with my ‘words to cut per page’ goal — or was it the other way around? The brain cringes…
Anyhoo, with Khashayar’s help, I was back on track, fingers to keyboard, when he suggested making two books out of my novel. After all, early on, I’d cut a long version of it into two and now I have two novels — so why not convert this ‘book 1 of 2’ into a ‘book 1 of 3’?
At first I replied, “No way,” adding various absolutes in terms of twisted facial expressions, gnashing of…
