UNbelievable

I was just looking at my first story again and discovered that the word count is 190,862!!! How the heck did I write that much? I know it took, like, seven years, but come on! Why? I ask myself, why? I had no perspective back then about how long a book is supposed to be. But I've learned a lot already and the average is about 80,000 to 90,000, right? 250 pages? I have a new appreciation for how much work I did on that thing. It was good practice! I'm actually pretty proud of it. Although I'm getting better every day, so now I look at it and want to do another edit. sigh.