Progress report:<\/p>\n
Last time looked at: 4\/1\/17<\/p>\n
Last actual wordage added: 4\/1\/17<\/p>\n
Pages added, 4\/1\/17: 2<\/p>\n
Current page count: 17<\/p>\n
Current word count: 4,506<\/p>\n
Estimated final page count: 20-30?<\/p>\n
Deadline: June 1, 2017 (anthology)<\/p>\n
Comments: Hmm… I haven’t always posted about this one.<\/p>\n
I’m writing this for a specific anthology I got invited to, so it needs to fit a particular set of parameters. As originally planned, I’m not sure it did, but then I didn’t have all of it planned out. I had the set-up, and I knew how I wanted it to end, but the stuff in between was very vague.<\/p>\n
As a result, I’ve backtracked a couple of times. The most recent one was tonight — sort of. I decided I needed to do a drastic rewrite, so I saved what I had in a separate file and looked at what to cut, and wound up not cutting anything<\/i>. I just picked up where I’d left off and added a couple of pages. I may yet wind up reworking it, but I think I want to finish this version first, just to see whether I can<\/i> get to my planned ending from where I was.<\/p>\n
I did make a few changes; originally the viewpoint character didn’t have a name, and then on page 11 he absolutely needed to have a name because he’s being formally announced, so he acquired one. Tonight one of things I did was go back and insert his name right in the first paragraph.<\/p>\n
Also, which of the Cousins serves as the setting has changed. Originally it was set in Skarl, which I realize means nothing to most of you, but Skarl has been mentioned in previous stories both published and un-, and the place I’m describing in this story is clearly smaller, poorer, and more backward than the Skarl described elsewhere. I could have moved it backward in time a couple of centuries, but it was just as easy to change the kingdom’s name to Korza and leave Skarl out of it entirely.<\/p>\n
Anyway, it’s coming along; I’ve set everything in place and the climactic fight should start in a couple of paragraphs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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