I have just, for all intents and purposes, finished the original scope of THE QUEEN’S BASTARD. There’s a chapter, maybe half a chapter, of what would’ve been denoument from the original synopsis, but there have been enough changes to where that section was going as to pretty much dismiss it as relevant in the scheme of finishing the original book’s storyline. This meta-book, or whatever you want to call it, clocks in at 940 pages, or 235,000 words. As it happens, because my editor was a bit horrified at the…
Author: mizkit
just metrics
We have returned the part of my life where there is no life, there is only Zuul, where “Zuul” means “wordcount”. I am attempting 5K a day for 7 days, because I won’t get any writing done at P-Con, and this book is a long way from finished. I have juuuuuust broken 90K on it. I am, at this point, certain I am halfway through. I might only be a few hundred words more than halfway through, but I am halfway through. I have somewhere between 50 and 80,000 words…
ytd wordcount: 102K
It’s March 21st and I have broken 100K for the year (and that with being totally out of writing commission for three weeks because of my stupid hand). I think this is only the second time I’ve racked up that kind of wordcount this early in the year, and I am somewhere between pleased at the number, and despairing over how much is left to do. Turns out the invasion will be tomorrow. If I do it right it’s going to be a screamingly sexy chapter. ytd wordcount: 102,200 miles…
TPC update
All right. I have written. Not all that much, just a couple thousand words, but it finishes this chapter and it finishes what I hesitate to call the setup, because I tend to think of “setup” as being the first third of the book, and if 76K is only the first third of the book I’m going to kill myself. (If for no other reason than avoiding having my editor kill me.) Tomorrow, I get to invade a sovereign country. ytd wordcount: 97,100
memes and line edits
Line edits for HANDS OF FLAME have been sent off. The end of the book has been revised to vast improvement, aligning much more closely now with my original vision of it, and I’m really pretty happy with it. There are a couple of stages left, but the book is very close to publish_ok now, and I am very very happy about that. It does mean I’m going to have to face the 70,000 word bugbear in the room now, though. Let’s see. Oh! Apparently HOUSE OF CARDS is going…