Freaking Out for no Apparent Reason

I think I have a problem.

So I'm hammering away at my fifth book. I'm into the twelfth chapter and I think I'm under 25,000 words. That doesn't bode very well. In fact, I'm fairly certain that's not good at all.

Am I not describing stuff well? Or am I just moving so quickly that I forget that sometimes I need to slow down? I don't know what's rightly going on. I'm worried that this book is going to come out to be the shortest of all of them. I thought my fourth book was going to be the shortest and wasn't too concerned when it cracked over 81,000 words. But the last book in a series is supposed to be something profound.

Now, a first draft is by no means what's going off to publication. But I was expecting it to be substantially bigger than the fourth book. I actually thought it would hit over the 100,000 word mark, like my second and third books did. So what'll happen if it doesn't? What does that say?

So far writing the fifth book has been really interesting. Coming to the end of a story I imagine is among the strangest of feelings for a writer to reach. I don't really know though. See, since I've never written a stand alone novel, I don't know what it's like to reach the end. It will be so strange when I write "The End" after the last sentence of my series.

It's both a wonderful and terrifying experience.

It's a little concerning seeing my word count be so minuscule at the moment. Haha, I think my professor would laugh at me saying 25,000 words was minuscule. I'm sure for some people, 25,000 words is a years worth of writing, not two weeks. And somewhere in my brain, I know that if the book is around 30 chapters long, then that means that I'll probably be close to 70,000 words. And considering the fact that my first take at the final battle culminated to 10,000 words on it's own...

Eh, what the heck am I worrying about anyway? I don't even know. I think I just wanted to write so I could tell you what AWESOME song I'm listening to. Seriously. I downloaded it two days ago and I've already listened to it over 60 times. I think that's my current problem, haha.

Happy writing.

Currently Writing: Revelation (chapter twelve)
Currently Reading: Eldest by Christopher Paolini
Currently Listening to: "Idumea" by the Millikin University Choir