Caveat Lector

The Final Quarter is done…at least this draft of it. I’m about ready to send it to Critters.

The novel didn’t turn out quite as long as I had expected, only 80,560 words, but I see no point in padding it just to get a few more thousand words out of it. I told the story I set out to tell and I finished the thing.

Woohoo!

Now I’ve got another project to begin, should certain plans pan out. Watch this space for more details involving a possible serialized novel based on “First Night in Jennings Grove.”

Finally finished one of the two new chapters. Then it’s on through the previously written four chapters, and rewite # 1 is done.

 After that, though, I think I’m going to have to let it sit awhile and then comeback for another rewrite. As I go along, there are some points that hit me as insufficent when I think back. I don’t want to lose the momentum I’ve got going,  so I’ll take care of those later.

The Final Quarter rewrite is going much more smoothly than I had anticipated. I’ve gone through the first seven chapters and done the necessary revisions to make it fit in with the fantasy theme. It’s taken much less than I thought. Of course, I may find out differently once I put this through Critters, but so far, I’ve been able to add, change and delete with relative ease. I’m not sure how many new words I’ve written, but the additions have happened slightly faster than the deletions, so I’m about a thousand words ahead of where I was yesterday.

The first seven chapters mark something of a milestone because it’s after this point I have to write two new chapters instead of just revising. I think the first one will be a little harder than the second, but hte two should add somewhere in the neighborhood of 13,000 to 15,000 words.

Just finished the prologue for my novel, tentatively called The Final Quarter. Aside from two new chapters a little down the line, most of what comes from here is reworking what already exists, so one of the hardest parts is finally done (I’ll probably look back on that statement one day soon and laugh manically).  But I’m really pumped about this, much more than I have been in awhile.

Finished the third of four scenes in the prologue.