A Sigils Progress Report

 
As of today, I'm 14000 words into my current writing project, Sigils. Usually, by this time in a project I can make a reasonable guess as to the final length. I'm not so sure this time.
 
Am I 20% of the way done? More? Less? I have no idea.
 
If every "day" [2-part chapter] in the outline ends up around 8K-10K (like the first day), then I'm about 16% done [because there are 9 days in the outline].
 
I'm thinking day #2 will end up closer to 10K-12K words. I'm already at 5500 words in this day and I haven't even gotten to the second part of the day yet. Will they all be that long? The 3rd day could be a lot longer. The 4th could be much shorter. In fact, there's no reason to assume that there will even be a useful "average word count" per chapter.
 
So … no … I have no idea how long this book will be.
 
I have 8 full weeks before Junebug's due date, plus I'll do about 4K more words this week. Which comes to about 72K words before Junebug. Or about 86K words total by then.
 
Will I be done by then? I have no idea. All I can guess is I will be either done or close to the end by then.
 
Which is a pretty vague guess, if you ask me.
 
My longest completed novel (which was also my first completed novel; which is unlikely to ever see the light of day) hit 145K words in its first draft (I cut it down to 125K in editing). I really don't expect Sigils to get that long. At least, I hope it doesn't.
 
-David
 
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