More than Chemistry - first draft done!

I changed the title from Haley's Comet - Haley didn't end up being as big of a character as I expected. But I've got the first draft of that done,and sent of to a lovely beta. It' about 20 000 words. I'm finding that the novella length works best for the stories with less external conflict, and when I'm only telling the story from one character's perspective. I COULD have thrown in Noah's POV on the whole thing, but I don't think it's really necessary. I hope. We'll see what my beta has to say!

Interesting...

I just noticed that MS Word has a feature that tells you the total 'editing time' spent on a given document.

The way I generally write, the documents are open pretty much all the time, just sitting there in the background in case inspiration strikes, so the numbers are pretty high right now (I REALLY don't think it took me 20 000 minutes to write the 12 000 words I've got so far on Shelter from the Storm), but I could change that. It might be good discipline, anyway, to sit down and consciously work at something intensely for while, instead of flitting all over the place. So if I closed the document when I wasn't working on it, then I could know how long it takes me to write each story. I think I'd like to know that... I could figure out an hourly wage, and realize that I'd be better off, financially, working at McDonalds...