Twenty Chapters !

[justcarol67]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> wrote:
> 
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dudemom_2000"
> <dudemom_2000 at y...> wrote:
> > 
> > JKR mentions under the FAQs Colin Creevy post that she read through 
> > 20 chapters at a sitting before doing the FAQs. Does this mean she 
> > has written 20 chapters??? If I remember the books run from about 17 
> > chapters to about 37. Sounds like she may be nearing completion 
> > unless this book is going to be huge in which case I figure she 
> > still has a way to go.
> > 
> > Dudemom_2000
> > 
> > *****\(@@)/*****
> 
> TECHNICALLY she never even said twenty chapters of what... could it
> have been just some new book she bought? >:)
> 
> And, sadly, it used to say she *proofread* twenty chapters, which
sounded like she was basically done and nearly ready to send it to
Bloomsbury.  I think she saw some of the excitement about that online
and changed it.  *sniff*
> 
> I'm thinking she has written twenty chapters, but she's probably
still in an early draft.  I'm still pulling for summer '05...
> 
> Annemehr

Carol adds:
Actually, the manuscript has to be sent to Bloomsbury and *edited*
first. Proofreading takes place at a much later stage, after the book
has been set in type. (See my previous post.)

Carol