Wait. What?!
"Calm down, calm down. It's not like any of you wanted to read a book that long. But I have to be realistic.
It's not that I can't write 100,000 words. It's that the story is telling me, 'Eh... Hold up. Do you want a bunch of filler pages just so you can get to your original goal, or do you want a good, tight book people will want to read?' And so I told the story that I wanted it to be tight and good. With that answer, comes a hard thing to do: I've lowered the word goal to 80,000."
"This...
It's not that I can't write 100,000 words. It's that the story is telling me, 'Eh... Hold up. Do you want a bunch of filler pages just so you can get to your original goal, or do you want a good, tight book people will want to read?' And so I told the story that I wanted it to be tight and good. With that answer, comes a hard thing to do: I've lowered the word goal to 80,000."
"This...
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