For the alpha readers…a comment below the cut.\u00a0 For the rest of you, spoiler below the cut.<\/p>\n
I’m still 2000 words over my own self-imposed limit–2206, to be precise–but almost-nearly-everything is done.\u00a0 The giant awful chapter has been neatly split up into logical chapter-like units (it’s not just the size, it’s the structural integrity) and looking at one comment of Agent’s….no, there’s a reason someone expresses sadness at someone else’s death repeatedly.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It would be unrealistic for that character not to be reminded and have it cross his awareness.\u00a0 Editor will have to weigh in for me to change it.<\/p>\n
So…spoilerishness.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The conversation between Arian and Dorrin has been completely redone…attitude shifts and all.\u00a0\u00a0 Some of you alpha readers commented on it and I had worked on it before, but with the other changes Agent asked for and got,\u00a0 those patches looked pretty much like duct tape holding bronze pieces together.\u00a0\u00a0 Badly.\u00a0 And the bronze pieces didn’t look that good either.\u00a0 Back into the whole creative process it went, and now I think is a much sleeker, more coherent, encounter.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Yeah, yeah, some of you don’t know who Arian is yet.\u00a0 You will soon.)<\/p>\n
There’s a lot more from various viewpoints about the doings of the elves–including the Lady–including reaction, speculation, concern, etc.<\/p>\n
There are now…gulp…thirty-nine chapters.\u00a0\u00a0 866 manuscript pages.\u00a0 172,206 words at this exact moment, though I’m planning more snippage tonight.\u00a0\u00a0 I do use slightly wider margins than some writers.<\/p>\n
Right now, though, I’m going to eat supper.\u00a0 (Skipped lunch except for some crackers and dry cereal eaten at the desk.\u00a0 Safe food.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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