Some Arctic Raoul stats

I've finished typing up to the end of Christine and Erik (as yet unedited, but word counts aren't likely to change much), which gives me twelve chapters — four short and relatively fast-moving ones on Raoul, and seven longer and slower ones on Christine... plus the one at the beginning, which is from her viewpoint too. That catches me all the way up to June 2018 ;-p

It also suggests that the total word count is going to be rather more than I'd estimated; I make the cumulative total almost exactly 44,450 so far, which is somewhat over the rule-of-thumb estimate for 85 pages at 500 words/page (42,500). Which means the entire thing is going to be even longer than I thought — fine as a fanfic serial epic, not so good as a submittable manuscript. ( Read more... )