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dual trilogies complete @ 180,000 words each |
I'm on holiday for the week from driving my buses around Oxford, and those Free Planet vs War World dual-trilogy part-3 novels I was struggling to gain any narrative traction in since 2014 dawned…
…they're finished. I say 'finished'. I've been rehashing Reaper from the mess that it was for the last three days solid (moved every single paragraph up and/or down the length of the book, reassigning whole pages of spiel or soliloquy across the alternate chapters etc. ditching a load of crap notes and inventing other by the power of jogging) and I've finally got it to first draft level.
Put it this way, each chapter of Reaper has a lot of something in it now – there are no spaces anywhere. It's all sorted, rounded, readable. And I've decided to be 'very brave' about the ending and kinda enigmaticise or poetry-prose i.e.
They'll both be about 60,000 words each once I've gone back in and hacked a lot of glossy fore-shadowing out of Kumiko and retattood the naked body of Reaper to a sufficiently gothic degree during the remainder of my holiday week.
Verrrrrrrrrrrrry happy now.