Cutting continues. The novel is some 15,000 words lighter than it was a year ago. That's sixty manuscript pages, or ten ounces, if we're talking actual poundage.
6/30/08 137,000 words
6/12/09 121,779
6/15/09 121,679
6/17/09 121,457 slow, slow, slow
6/25/09 120,541
6/26/09 118,988 ring the bell, first goal reached!
