I didn’t so much reach the end of the draft as run out of words. As often happens with exploratory drafts. But then, landing the ending is often one of the very last things I do, so I won’t worry too much about that yet.The shape of the first 2/3 or maybe even 3/4 feels […]
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janni: At 15,000 words I’m thinking maybe the plot will show up sometime soon?lnhammer: Last book you were saying that at 35,000 words.janni: Oh, right. (pause) More like 40,000, actually.It’s true, too. The first 40,000 exploratory draft words of Faerie After pretty much became … chapter 1.@Secondary_Character: Either you are really, really stupid, or you’re
1. Remember the last book you wrote? In that book’s first draft, it took you 40,000 words to get to the point where the final draft’s first chapter ends.2. Remember the book before that? It’s first draft was the entirely wrong story, set in the wrong season in the wrong town with the wrong characters,
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“As the scene around us faded a voice whispered, ‘None of this has really happened save in a thematic sense. But steal freely from it as you require.’”In other words: Let’s pretend that chapter never happened, except when we don’t.This draft really is being … more meta than most, even for me. And I may
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