Let’s see…
My inciting incident should be at… 8,500.
Right now it’s at 6200 words.
Hm.
Act 1 should be 21,250 words. It’s at 19174 words right now.
Act 2a should be 21,250 words. It’s at 12443 words.
Act 2b should be 21,250 words. It’s at 18,766 words.
Act 3 should be 21,250 words. It’s at 30.577 words right now.
Total words – 80960. Word count needed for publication – 85,000
I need to cut 9,327 words from act 3.
I need to add 2076 words to act 1 – all of them prior to inciting incident.
I need to add 8,807 words to act 2a and 2,484 words to act 2B
The scenes are already written – I’d pulled about half of the book. Now I need to find the best of the deleted scenes to put back.
And it’s heavy prowritingaid work to get it ready for Pre-Black Friday release.
Question: Should I get the prequel books written first – or since this one has been lingering since 2013 in its earliest forms, should I get it done now and introduce the prequels later?
