Mafuatano ya Twilight Article: Seasons greetings from Stephenie!

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posted by chocolate-bear

This is from Stephenie Meyers blog. In it she talks about finishing the rough draft of Breaking Dawn (yay!) and about how many pages it is.

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Happy holidays, everybody! I hope wewe are happy, healthy, surrounded kwa loved ones, warm, and done with your shopping. I'd upendo to run around giving all of wewe Porsches this year, but, since I can't, my gift to wewe is a peek at the Japanese illustrations from Eclipse, which are in my picha in a brand new folder. Enjoy!

My gift to myself is the best one I could have possibly aliyopewa me! December 22nd, at around 1:20 a.m., I finally finished the rough draft of Breaking Dawn. Hallelujah! It feels amazing to have that boulder-sized weight off my back. And now I get to relax and have fun on krisimasi instead of uandishi all night like I have been doing up to this point.

Please, please don't read this and begin a slew of "If Breaking Dawn is done, why can't it come out NOW!" comments. I finished the ROUGH draft. Very, very rough. To put this in perspective, it took over two years from the rough draft stage of Twilight to the book being on store shelves. In general, I spend about a mwaka to a mwaka and a half editing a book. Don't cry, though, because both I and Little Brown's editorial staff are going to do everything in our power to get Breaking Dawn out Fall 2008. So, fingers crossed, it will be on time. Just don't ask for it to come out early because my head is already pretty close to exploding right now. (To get the rough draft done this week, I shattered a personal record kwa uandishi 40 (FORTY!!) pages in one day. That kind of thing takes a toll.)

Because I know wewe all upendo insider information, here are some stats on my other vitabu as they compare to the length of Breaking Dawn*

* Remember, the BD numbers are based on the rough draft and will change in the editing process, but this will give wewe the general idea.

TWILIGHT
Pages on my computer: 475
Word count: 118,501
Pages in book form: 498

NEW MOON
Pages on my computer: 528
Word count: 132,807
Pages in book form: 563

ECLIPSE
Pages on my computer: 611
Word count: 147,930
Pages in book form: 629

BREAKING DAWN
Pages on my computer: 775!!
Word count: 192,196!!
Pages in book form: barring some kind of massive editing cut, I'm guestimating right around eight hundred pages!!

There wewe go, fun statistics from Stephenie's computer.

Once again, enjoy your holidays, everyone!

XOXO
Steph

stevenalclark, Cas_Cat_2 and 7 others like this

CharmedAngel88 Thanks for posting this, it was nice to read. I can't wait to read the possible 800 pages of Breaking Dawn! But Fall of 2008 seems so far away! I had heard a while back it was going to be released in August of '08 and that seemed far enough then, so tacking on a couple months is tourture. But I will live.

chocolate-bear Lol, it does seem extremely far away. But i guess the farther away it is, the better it will be! And no problem. :)

CharmedAngel88 True, the longer it takes for the book to come out means that she has more time to perfect it for us. That's a good way to look at things.

alice24 i cant wait somebody wake me up when it comes out

luvrofedward that was really cool to read. i just realized that this soapbox thingy was here. that would be weird if the movie came out at the same time as the movie, i would read the book first and then go see the movie...idk bout u....

chocolate-bear that would be weird if they came out at the same time. I would definitely read the book first though ... maybe a couple times before i saw the movie. :p

Aryn hey! fall 2008 'aint THAT far away... LOL!!! It is fall 2008 now!!! Breaking Dawn comes out in about 3 DAYS!!! Wow, I'm sure glad that i didn't begin the series until July 2008. Otherwise I would have had to wait so long!!!!! Well, it's almost out now, so I am HAPPYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot WAIT! It is going to be awesome. :))))) -Aryn (\_(\ (O.o) ((")(")