{"id":646,"date":"2017-08-14T21:32:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T21:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/?p=646"},"modified":"2017-08-14T21:33:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T21:33:29","slug":"work-in-progress-tom-derringer-the-steam-powered-saurians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2017\/08\/14\/work-in-progress-tom-derringer-the-steam-powered-saurians\/","title":{"rendered":"Work in Progress: Tom Derringer & the Steam-Powered Saurians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Progress Report: Tom Derringer & the Steam-Powered Saurians\"Tom<\/p>\n

Last time looked at: 8\/14\/17<\/p>\n

Last actual wordage added: 8\/14\/17<\/p>\n

Pages added, 8\/14\/17: 3<\/p>\n

Current page count: 58<\/p>\n

Estimated final page count: 250<\/p>\n

Current word count: 14,752<\/p>\n

Deadline: None. Will be self-published.<\/p>\n

Comments: Got back to work on this partly so as not to focus entirely on Elfshot<\/i>. (You haven’t yet seen any progress reports on that one.) I’ve been busily working out plot and background and characters for Elfshot<\/i>, but I don’t want to get obsessed with it and neglect other stuff.<\/p>\n

I went back through all of Tom Derringer and the Steam-Powered Saurians<\/i>, did some minor revisions (largely to get Peter Cartwright’s voice more consistent, but also to get the timeline straight and match what was really happening in 1884), then finally got past where I’d been stalled for months.<\/p>\n

And I surprised the hell out of myself with a heretofore-unplanned plot twist. I think that somewhere in the back of my head I knew this was coming, which is why I was stuck on page 55 for so long, waiting for this to emerge. Peter Cartwright, originally intended to be a very minor character, looks as if he’ll be taking on a much larger role.<\/p>\n

Good to be moving forward again!<\/p>\n

(And by the way, I assume everyone reading this knows that Tom Derringer in the Tunnels of Terror<\/i> is out.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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