Random thoughts on finishing the third draft

 

60,780 words seems on the short side to me. However, The Great Gatsby is 50,061 words. Another however: I am certainly not F. Scott Fitzgerald.I actually started on the fourth draft before I had finished the third. With feedback from my writing group as well as some of my own revisions, I'm now on chapter seven of the fourth draft.Although I know I'll still be working on this novel for a while, I want to turn my attention to two stories I started rewriting earlier this year.And then there's...