First draft: DONE! Chapters: 30 Words: ~75,000 Happy dance: DONE!Sharon had a great idea. I printed out a copy for my Dad (and signed it with thanks for raising us with a love of reading, and for encouraging our imaginations). She'll give it to him this weekend. BUT DON'T TELL HIM! It's a surprise.
Caveat: That's real words, not words as publishing companies count (a multiple of page count). Using their method it's 90,000 to 100,000 words, depending on page size.
Depending on how you figure it, that's somewhere in the neighborhood of the first three Harry Potter books, and right in there with The Hunger Games.
I'm sure this will change a little before it's over; it needs at least two chapters inserted somewhere near the beginning to cover some things I glossed over. I need to add a few things here and there, but I also need to tighten the writing up. And... things may change as I revise it.
Still... 75,000 words in two months (including research and rough editing of each chapter), with a full time job and lots of real life still happening. I'm pretty stoked.
Thanks to all of you who've been encouraging me, with my awesome wife of course leading the race.
I'm thinking of letting a very small group of people read it at this stage. I'd want serious feedback (what you liked and didn't, in terms of characters, flow, style, dialogue, plot, culture, etc), what you didn't understand, how easy or difficult it was to read, and a few other things. They would all be spelled out, but I want to make it clear up front that to even be considered, I'd expect this. I would hope for at least a couple of pages of response.
Otherwise, you'll just have to wait til it's done. Sorry, but I don't want a substandard, unfinished product loose in the wild. I mean, look what happened with those velociraptors!
If you are interested, and have the time, and commit to the feedback, let me know.
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