Thursday, May 15, 2014

Finished!

71,500 words, and "The Crown of Pluto" is officially done in draft!  Granted, the story ran a good 25,000 words longer than I meant for it to go, and as a result, I suspect that I've got quite a bit of re-writing in my future, but...  

WHO CARES?!

In the course of 9+ years of commuting by train, I've now written TWO complete, full-length novels, four graphic novels, a half-dozen or so unconnected short stories, and about a million blog posts. At the end of the day, this is best argument I have in favor of public transportation. 

*whew*

Who's looking for something to read?

Heh. Just kidding. 

I've gotta let the thing sit for a month, rest a little, and then give it at least one re-write. And then I've gotta go back through the other stories in the book, add back in all the thematic things I developed writing "Pluto", and basically clean it at all up, but none if that matters right now.  

Hooray!  My story is told!

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EDIT: Now that I've got it all cut together, the complete first draft came out to 190 pages, 72,142 words.  

I got very close to spinning this thing out into its own self-contained novel, but right now, I'm inordinately pleased with the way the ending came out.  It took me some time, but I think I played off all the angles set up in the other stories, and I feel good about where we've left everyone.  

Guess we'll see if that's true once the test-readers get a shot at it.

2 comments:

  1. Congrats on completing the draft.

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    1. Thanks Tony.

      I may yet write one more little part, an Epilogue called "Rags to Riches to Rags Again." The ideas been bouncing around in my head for a day or two, and then I outlined it on my phone while I was on the subway yesterday.

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