I'm going long

I’m on page 96, and I know I’m going to go long. I guess it’s better to have too much than not enough. Plus I am running into a few structure problems. It is so tempting to go back and tinker right now, before the first draft is done, but I have resisted so far. Some scenes that seemed to make sense in the outline, now seem to drag the story out. The first thing I’m going to do is merge a bunch of scenes and hopefully cut 10-15 pages out without sacrificing the story too much.

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