Vengeance and Valor: FINISHED.
I finished Vengeance and Valor.
If you want the numbers, it's 44 chapters, 158,464 words. It's HUGE.
It's only book one out of three that will probably be about the same length, but the book is done.
The job isn't done, the story isn't even close to done, but the book is done.
I have a lot of ironing and filling and spackling and stitching to do in revision, but the book is done.
DONE.
So . . . I believe I am proud of myself. I had a long depressive episode in the middle which stalled me for a couple of years, but I never let the story die. I held on, and I finished it.
I'm a little off-balance, though, because the beginning of it is so . . . slightly absurd, humorous young adult novel-like, it's got a very light, very funny tone. And it just kept getting darker and darker. Not, like, never anything funny or silly, but . . . I can't say it ended on an up note for everyone. And I don't know if I should go back and kind of tone down the beginning, or leave it as it is, with the tone shift paralleling the characters' departure from what is normal for them into what is really a pretty dark and dangerous world. I don't know if it works.
I won't be looking at publishing this until the whole thing is done, because the plot is so complicated and parts of it are changing as things progress, so I am continually having to go back and slip stuff into earlier chapters. I don't want to be locked down by having it out anywhere officially. So, it will take time. But it's happening.
I still love these characters.
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If you want the numbers, it's 44 chapters, 158,464 words. It's HUGE.
It's only book one out of three that will probably be about the same length, but the book is done.
The job isn't done, the story isn't even close to done, but the book is done.
I have a lot of ironing and filling and spackling and stitching to do in revision, but the book is done.
DONE.
So . . . I believe I am proud of myself. I had a long depressive episode in the middle which stalled me for a couple of years, but I never let the story die. I held on, and I finished it.
I'm a little off-balance, though, because the beginning of it is so . . . slightly absurd, humorous young adult novel-like, it's got a very light, very funny tone. And it just kept getting darker and darker. Not, like, never anything funny or silly, but . . . I can't say it ended on an up note for everyone. And I don't know if I should go back and kind of tone down the beginning, or leave it as it is, with the tone shift paralleling the characters' departure from what is normal for them into what is really a pretty dark and dangerous world. I don't know if it works.
I won't be looking at publishing this until the whole thing is done, because the plot is so complicated and parts of it are changing as things progress, so I am continually having to go back and slip stuff into earlier chapters. I don't want to be locked down by having it out anywhere officially. So, it will take time. But it's happening.
I still love these characters.
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