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lol. Coming back briefly to this topic, I'm working on one novel that was about 151k words long when I started my latest edit on it, and then grew to a whopping 160k words before I realized that it was actually *too* big. So I've since then been going through it with a brushhog and have reduced it by almost 20k words already. Most of that reduction has come from the removal of unnecessary scenes and some additional story elements that really did not add anything to the book, or ultimately detracted from it. I'm only about 15% into this editing round, so I expect the book to drop another 20k words before all is said and done to a comfortable 120k words, which is really all the larger I want it to be as that's a nice, manageable size.
I've got another one I'll be working on right after this one that's gonna have to lose some serious word weight before all is said and done.
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