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And after much ado . . .
Jul. 27th, 2005 09:52 pm. . . and procrastination, chapter 10 is finished. It stalled (sort of) because I realized I'd left an entire character out of a scene in chapter 9 that was integral to the plot on chapter 10 and had been set up with much pain on my part in chapter 8. So I spent some time revising chapter 9 to include the important character and her death so that I could write about it and its consequences in chapter 10. This is what I generally do in situations where I missed something earlier either through error on my part, or by something simply coming up later on in the novel that I hadn't planned on, but which required setup in an earlier, already-written chapter. I go back and fix the chapter. Lots of writers just write a little note that they need to do this later, and then continue writing. I find it very difficult to do that. When the first draft of my book is done, the only revisions that I know I want to do usually involve things like "emphasize this a little more where possible" or "character B's motivation has changed slightly, correct it where appropriate". So revisions after teh first draft for me usually involve rereading the entire book and altering the emphasis of things or eliminating things that I thought would be important at the time but by the end of the novel I found out they weren't important at all. I'm reaching the point in this novel where I'm so close to the end (2 more chapters at a guess) that I've started to think about the revision. This is not the revision where I revamp anything. That comes after I let the agent and first readers look at it and give me opinions. Once they have their say, I'll do a serious revision and then send it off to the editor.
Tentative schedule (stupidly announced to the editor so that now she thinks I'll be handing in the book a year before deadline) is to finish my first draft by end of summer and send it out to agent and readers. Get their opinions and comments over the course of the fall semester. Spend a week in December revising the entire book per their suggestions, and send it in to the editor in January, when the first book comes out.
I keep repeating this schedule to myself in order to convince myself that it will actually happen. I mean seriously, who has a free week for revisions in December? Especially when their first book is coming out at the beginning of January?
Anyway, chapter 10 clocked in at 31 pages before the final read-through, so the current word count is:
The Cracked Throne
Assuming an average of 30 pages per chapter, and 2 more chapters, that puts the word count of the novel at 92,000 words, a little below the goal. But I'm expecting the final chapters to be a little longer than 30 pages, so we'll see what happens. Plus my editor usually requests that I add things, so it might get bumped up to 100,000 words from that.
Anyway, that's the update. A link to my webpage should be forthcoming shortly. I'm waiting for some things from the artist before I can make it public. As long as everything goes along smoothly with the artist however, the webpage should rock.
Tentative schedule (stupidly announced to the editor so that now she thinks I'll be handing in the book a year before deadline) is to finish my first draft by end of summer and send it out to agent and readers. Get their opinions and comments over the course of the fall semester. Spend a week in December revising the entire book per their suggestions, and send it in to the editor in January, when the first book comes out.
I keep repeating this schedule to myself in order to convince myself that it will actually happen. I mean seriously, who has a free week for revisions in December? Especially when their first book is coming out at the beginning of January?
Anyway, chapter 10 clocked in at 31 pages before the final read-through, so the current word count is:
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The Cracked Throne
Assuming an average of 30 pages per chapter, and 2 more chapters, that puts the word count of the novel at 92,000 words, a little below the goal. But I'm expecting the final chapters to be a little longer than 30 pages, so we'll see what happens. Plus my editor usually requests that I add things, so it might get bumped up to 100,000 words from that.
Anyway, that's the update. A link to my webpage should be forthcoming shortly. I'm waiting for some things from the artist before I can make it public. As long as everything goes along smoothly with the artist however, the webpage should rock.
