/lit/ - Literature

I have reached 136 thousand words. I will NOT be able to finish this in the projected 137 thousand I had calculated it would take. I still have two chapters that need to be finished. I might end up somewhere around 140k or (hopefully) a little less.
This is sickening. No one will publish a book this long from some nobody. I have no restraint. After I wrap up the narrative I'll need to cut a chapter's worth of material from the body of the text.
Sad.