Remember Wednesday when I gave a rough estimate of 58 chapters in BEYOND THE PROPHECY? Well, I decided to rough out what I thought those chapters might be. (I won’t call it an outline, because I don’t do those.) It came out to 46 in the first draft.
That may or may not be accurate. It’s perfectly possible that I’ll discover some events that require more than one chapter. And I’m pretty sure that I’ll be adding at least a couple of chapters in the first round of revisions. (That’s not particularly unusual, by the way.) But, yeah, I don’t think it’s going to be 58 chapters.
That means I might finish this first draft in as little as a month. It might take a bit longer than that, though, because there are at least three fight scenes in the last part and they do take more planning and a little longer to write.
So, I’m definitely making progress and getting more confident with the idea of a September/October release. Though a lot could still happen to change that.
Meredith Mansfield, Author 
I don’t try to guess with chapters. Even though I did some beats for this new novella, I’m still not sure how it would work out in chapters.
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I usually don’t either. I just got curious at about 2/3 of the way through, so I sort of mapped it out. Even that’s already wrong. I’ve added another chapter. It’s not something I think I’ll do again.
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