So it's ended.
Just like that.
And f*ck Its passed the word count, and I'm deleting chapter 15 and rewriting it, deleting it and rewriting it again, and repeating the process until it fitted the criteria of not passing the 20.000 words.
I'm almost cried when I deleting a lot of things and keep saying I'm f*cked up over and over again.
And oh f*ck me. The grammar, repeated words, my lack of vocabulary, my confusion about past and present tense, plural and nom plural, and the rushed story...
Man, I'm tired.
Anyway. Word count, without the title:
Prologue: 458
Chapter One: 836
Chapter Two: 554
Chapter Three: 759
Chapter Four: 852
Chapter Five: 797
Chapter Six: 648
Chapter Seven: 1.211
Chapter Eight: 1.577
Chapter Nine: 1.271
Chapter Ten: 1.927
Chapter Eleven: 1.803
Chapter Twelve: 2.153
Chapter Thirteen: 2.135
Chapter Fourteen: 1.075
Chapter Fifteen: 1.260
Epilogue: 643
Total: 19.959 words
And my Microsoft Words word count, plus the title is: 19.999 words.
A close call, right?
I don't know if the restrictions including the title, so I just use the Microsoft Words word count.
I'm almost f*cked it up.
I do realize that there's a lot of the chapters that happening in blank room, I'm unable to write poetically, my vocabulary is also as restricted as the words count, and there's not much Lys (Sven) and Kevin moments, the only chapter where they're together and enjoying each other presence is chapter twelve. I don't have much more words left to make it longer though.
At first I write the first few chapters, and thinking, "This is only some hundreds words, maybe I can make it longer the next chapter!"
And so I f*cked myself up with that one thought.
There's a lot of things I want to write, but since it's impossible because it won't fit in 20.000 words, I need to skip a lot of things, and because I write a lot of b*lls*it on the first few chapters, I don't have enough words to fit on the last few chapters. That was also the reason I don't publish chapter thirteen to fourteen immediately although I've finishing it days ago.
I write some planners of what kind of story it will become for every chapter after I write chapter three (I don't know what it's called in English), but I'm ended up not following it at all. Getting too carried away writing some more s*it and straying away from the plan. Mixing this, adding that, deleting this and that, and in the end I'm adding two more chapters, and unable to write a real important things for this story.
I also feeling reluctant to ended the story (despite me already finishing the epilogue beforehand) and getting lazy af and ended up playing Cytus and other random games, watching football (not that American football, American call this soccer) match on tv, some other random shows, wasting my time rather than finishing this story, despite my own better judgement *LOL*.
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By The Sea And The Land
FantasyA Prince is sailing to the neighbouring Kingdom to propose to a Princess of his parents choice. But then they stumble upon a raging storms and he had fallen to the sea. Before he lose his consciousness, he saw a beautiful light blue fish that didn't...
