Current Word Count: ~146,000.
Current Page Count: 655, double-spaced.
Listening to: Forest of Illusion: Chrono Cross OST
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As crazy as it feels for me to type it, my book is 3/4 complete. If learning Hebrew, work, and a possible internship don't kill me this year, I estimate that I will have the first draft of the story finished by Spring 2013.
Have I said this is crazy yet?
I love what has happened with the story. Plotting a long tale is a daunting prospect. Stephen King says that plotting is like trying to excavate a skeleton with a jackhammer. It might be good for getting big rocks out of the way, but once you get close to those bones, you have pull out your chisel, hammer, and brush.
The metaphor is apt. While I always knew of a few big bullet points on the timeline of the story, the rest of it grew organically. Ideas, plot twists, and even characters invented themselves as the need arose. The story has gone directions I never would have anticipated. I consider this fact very seriously in light of chapter 34, a good portion of which I wrote over two years ago. I had to surgically implant this old material right into a living story. Some things had to be cut away in order to mesh with what actually ended up happening (as opposed to how Ithought things would proceed) but the heart of that insert remained intact.
Publishing is a still a big, nebulous monster, but I think it'll be a lot less scarier once I get my first novel under my belt.
If you've been following me this long, you've got my love.
D
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Current Page Count: 655, double-spaced.
Listening to: Forest of Illusion: Chrono Cross OST
____
As crazy as it feels for me to type it, my book is 3/4 complete. If learning Hebrew, work, and a possible internship don't kill me this year, I estimate that I will have the first draft of the story finished by Spring 2013.
Have I said this is crazy yet?
I love what has happened with the story. Plotting a long tale is a daunting prospect. Stephen King says that plotting is like trying to excavate a skeleton with a jackhammer. It might be good for getting big rocks out of the way, but once you get close to those bones, you have pull out your chisel, hammer, and brush.
The metaphor is apt. While I always knew of a few big bullet points on the timeline of the story, the rest of it grew organically. Ideas, plot twists, and even characters invented themselves as the need arose. The story has gone directions I never would have anticipated. I consider this fact very seriously in light of chapter 34, a good portion of which I wrote over two years ago. I had to surgically implant this old material right into a living story. Some things had to be cut away in order to mesh with what actually ended up happening (as opposed to how Ithought things would proceed) but the heart of that insert remained intact.
Publishing is a still a big, nebulous monster, but I think it'll be a lot less scarier once I get my first novel under my belt.
If you've been following me this long, you've got my love.
D
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Current Story Outline
BOOK 1: LYING AWAKE
Prologue: The Prose of Photius, Record One
1: The Autumn Garden
2: Midnight
3: Ghosts of Chimon-Jing
4: The Demon
5: The Conclave
6: What Friends are For
7: Helmsman's Folly
8: The Merchant Arcade
9: Miles from Mine
10: We Should be Sleeping
11: If the Stars are Willing
12: Broken Promises
13: The Only Life I've Ever Known
14: A Well to Draw From
15: What Tomorrow Holds
16: A Lovely Day
17: Revelations
18: City on the Winds
19: Storm Clouds
20: Event Horizon
21: To Reap a Whirlwind
22: Falling
23: The Heavens Remained Silent
BOOK 2: SOUL SLEEP
Interlude: The Prose of Photius, Record Two
24: Awakenings
25: Prison Cell(s)
26: The Voice on the Other Side
27: Greasers
28: The Knowledge of Good and Evil
29: A Letter from a Murderer
30: Into the Hinterlands
31: I am of the Gifted
32: Judsung Hollow
33: The Wrong Business
34: Running Toward the Sun
35: A Good Death
BOOK 3: A WORLD FULL OF VICTIMS
Interlude: The Prose of Photius, Record Three
36: Sheol and All its Demons
BOOK 1: LYING AWAKE
Prologue: The Prose of Photius, Record One
1: The Autumn Garden
2: Midnight
3: Ghosts of Chimon-Jing
4: The Demon
5: The Conclave
6: What Friends are For
7: Helmsman's Folly
8: The Merchant Arcade
9: Miles from Mine
10: We Should be Sleeping
11: If the Stars are Willing
12: Broken Promises
13: The Only Life I've Ever Known
14: A Well to Draw From
15: What Tomorrow Holds
16: A Lovely Day
17: Revelations
18: City on the Winds
19: Storm Clouds
20: Event Horizon
21: To Reap a Whirlwind
22: Falling
23: The Heavens Remained Silent
BOOK 2: SOUL SLEEP
Interlude: The Prose of Photius, Record Two
24: Awakenings
25: Prison Cell(s)
26: The Voice on the Other Side
27: Greasers
28: The Knowledge of Good and Evil
29: A Letter from a Murderer
30: Into the Hinterlands
31: I am of the Gifted
32: Judsung Hollow
33: The Wrong Business
34: Running Toward the Sun
35: A Good Death
BOOK 3: A WORLD FULL OF VICTIMS
Interlude: The Prose of Photius, Record Three
36: Sheol and All its Demons
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