28-Day Writing Challenge – Day 16: All Chapters Transferred

Hello, everyone, this is day 16 of the 28-day writing challenge. I’m excited about today because I put down the last of the blog post that I was going to use as a foundation for this book.

Day 16 vlog.

Chapters

There were actually six different blog posts that I combined to make three chapters. So I had the four chapters from my original book, three chapters that are composed of blog posts, and eight new chapters that I’ve written during this process. So I’ve come up with 16 chapters.

Page Count

Extra pages mean more room for edits
Extra pages mean more room for edits.

My original goal was to get at least 125 pages. Looking at the document, I see that I have 217 pages at the moment. Now that may sound bad, but it isn’t. A 200-page document is really good; that’s an average size book.

What’s really good about this number of pages is I’m going back through it and I will be able to cut out a lot of things and not worry about the length. I’ll be able to tighten the wording and make it flow better. So that’s exciting.

Next Steps

Making progress
Making progress

Here I am on day 16. Can you write a book in 28 days or less? Well, I wrote one in 16 days. Although technically I’m not quite there because my definition of writing a book is to do the rough draft and a first-round edit on it. So I will go ahead and do the first round edit, but I have almost two extra weeks to do some extra editing and polishing.

I’m going to have to come up with a book cover as well, which I’m going to start working on tomorrow. Today I had to go to work to make up for a day I missed last week, but I’m glad to report that I’ve done I have a rough draft of the book. So that’s pretty exciting.

It can be done. Remember: YOU CAN WRITE A BOOK!

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