This is from Stephenie Meyers blog. In it she talks about finishing the rough draft of Breaking Dawn (yay!) and about how many pages it is.
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Happy holidays, everybody! I hope te are happy, healthy, surrounded da loved ones, warm, and done with your shopping. I'd Amore to run around giving all of te Porsches this year, but, since I can't, my gift to te is a peek at the Japanese illustrations from Eclipse, which are in my foto in a brand new folder. Enjoy!
My gift to myself is the best one I could have possibly dato me! December 22nd, at around 1:20 a.m., I finally finished the rough draft of Breaking Dawn. Hallelujah! It feels amazing to have that boulder-sized weight off my back. And now I get to relax and have fun on Natale instead of Scrivere all night like I have been doing up to this point.
Please, please don't read this and begin a slew of "If Breaking Dawn is done, why can't it come out NOW!" comments. I finished the ROUGH draft. Very, very rough. To put this in perspective, it took over two years from the rough draft stage of Twilight to the book being on store shelves. In general, I spend about a anno to a anno and a half editing a book. Don't cry, though, because both I and Little Brown's editorial staff are going to do everything in our power to get Breaking Dawn out Fall 2008. So, fingers crossed, it will be on time. Just don't ask for it to come out early because my head is already pretty close to exploding right now. (To get the rough draft done this week, I shattered a personal record da Scrivere 40 (FORTY!!) pages in one day. That kind of thing takes a toll.)
Because I know te all Amore insider information, here are some stats on my other libri as they compare to the length of Breaking Dawn*
* Remember, the BD numbers are based on the rough draft and will change in the editing process, but this will give te the general idea.
TWILIGHT
Pages on my computer: 475
Word count: 118,501
Pages in book form: 498
NEW MOON
Pages on my computer: 528
Word count: 132,807
Pages in book form: 563
ECLIPSE
Pages on my computer: 611
Word count: 147,930
Pages in book form: 629
BREAKING DAWN
Pages on my computer: 775!!
Word count: 192,196!!
Pages in book form: barring some kind of massive editing cut, I'm guestimating right around eight hundred pages!!
There te go, fun statistics from Stephenie's computer.
Once again, enjoy your holidays, everyone!
XOXO
Steph
xxx
Happy holidays, everybody! I hope te are happy, healthy, surrounded da loved ones, warm, and done with your shopping. I'd Amore to run around giving all of te Porsches this year, but, since I can't, my gift to te is a peek at the Japanese illustrations from Eclipse, which are in my foto in a brand new folder. Enjoy!
My gift to myself is the best one I could have possibly dato me! December 22nd, at around 1:20 a.m., I finally finished the rough draft of Breaking Dawn. Hallelujah! It feels amazing to have that boulder-sized weight off my back. And now I get to relax and have fun on Natale instead of Scrivere all night like I have been doing up to this point.
Please, please don't read this and begin a slew of "If Breaking Dawn is done, why can't it come out NOW!" comments. I finished the ROUGH draft. Very, very rough. To put this in perspective, it took over two years from the rough draft stage of Twilight to the book being on store shelves. In general, I spend about a anno to a anno and a half editing a book. Don't cry, though, because both I and Little Brown's editorial staff are going to do everything in our power to get Breaking Dawn out Fall 2008. So, fingers crossed, it will be on time. Just don't ask for it to come out early because my head is already pretty close to exploding right now. (To get the rough draft done this week, I shattered a personal record da Scrivere 40 (FORTY!!) pages in one day. That kind of thing takes a toll.)
Because I know te all Amore insider information, here are some stats on my other libri as they compare to the length of Breaking Dawn*
* Remember, the BD numbers are based on the rough draft and will change in the editing process, but this will give te the general idea.
TWILIGHT
Pages on my computer: 475
Word count: 118,501
Pages in book form: 498
NEW MOON
Pages on my computer: 528
Word count: 132,807
Pages in book form: 563
ECLIPSE
Pages on my computer: 611
Word count: 147,930
Pages in book form: 629
BREAKING DAWN
Pages on my computer: 775!!
Word count: 192,196!!
Pages in book form: barring some kind of massive editing cut, I'm guestimating right around eight hundred pages!!
There te go, fun statistics from Stephenie's computer.
Once again, enjoy your holidays, everyone!
XOXO
Steph
