So I’ve finished typing in all of  my edits for Earth Shatterer.  It became pretty easy towards the end as I didn’t see much to really change.  A few words here and there but nothing major.  So when I looked at the ending word count I noticed that I’ve chopped a solid 9,000 words from the previous draft.  Not a bad feat.  That’s 9,000 unnecessary words gone.  But now that leaves me with a word count that’s leaning more towards middle grade than young adult.  Crap.

I want the count at at least 50,000 so puffing it up with another 4,000 words isn’t that big of a deal.  I don’t want it to be too bare bones and I know a few places where I can go into fleshier detail about some things.  But still.  It’s a see-saw man, I swear.

Well, at least I don’t have to do another total rewrite.  I’m pretty happy with what I have.  The first chapter needs to be reworded a bit as the voice is a little off but overall, I’m satisfied.  Now it’d be nice if I can be done with it already!  I’m so close!