Inkfeather Pages is where I share the messier, more honest side of writing life — drafting, revising, the odd garden-fatigued Sunday, and everything in between. Expect notes from the desk, behind-the-scenes glimpses of works in progress, and the occasional ramble about what it actually takes to finish a novel.
Jemma Weir is a Scottish indie author of paranormal romance and urban fantasy with bite: magic is messy, love is fierce, and family means everything. Fantasy was her first love. Now she writes the kind of stories she always wanted to read — gritty, heartfelt, and just a little unhinged.
When I planned my word count for this book, I went to the higher end of book length for the genre I was writing in – 90k words. It’s not a ‘must be’ length. It’s a length that allowed me space to be short, if I needed it. My original maths told me that with a scene length from draft 1 averaging about 1200 words I needed around about 75 scenes to hit 90k. So,
