For anyone keeping track (other then my lonely self), I got a job. Finally. Upon hearing the news, I was a little surprised I didn't receive noise complaints from anyone living up to five states away. That's how loud my relief was.
Today I had a serious reality check concerning page count. I'm at 50,759 words in the story, and 239 pages on my microsoft word program. By my best guess (and of course, this should be taken with a grain of salt because what writer ever really knows) I'm about two/thirds of the through, providing the characters go and say what I want. I've found they have minds of their own however, and I admit a third of the story is them doing what they want. So much for being in control. Anyway, I learned that a typical page in a novel (adult) has around 440 words. Young Adult books tend have around 300 (and reader, whoever you are, I took the time to count a page out of Hunger Games). Divide my lamentable, paltry sum and I've got about 169 pages. It could be worse I suppose, like the day I find out there are only about three sentence worth keeping in the whole thing. Yeah, lots worse.
I just finished reading Catching Fire, second installment in Hunger Games series. Awesome. If you haven't picked it up, please go do so.
Night.
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