As of this morning, my novel-in-gestation The Myrtle of Venus is up to a whoppin’ 45,026 words. But several major scenes still need to be embellished from rough form into full prose, so the final thing’ll likely be longer than the NaNoWriMo minimum of 50,000.

Some of you have asked how many printed pages that will mean. Trade books can have as many as 500 or as few as 200 words per page, so no accurate comparison can be made. A 50,000-word text could fill between 100 and 250 book pages; even more if you add blank pages between chapters or scatter pictures through the thang.