Last time looked at: 2\/26\/17<\/p>\n
Last actual wordage added: 7\/30\/14 (not counting minor revisions)<\/p>\n
Pages added, 2\/26\/17: 0 (but see below)<\/p>\n
Current page count: 53<\/p>\n
Estimated final page count: 300-350.<\/p>\n
Deadline: None. Purely speculative.<\/p>\n
Comments: I got chatting with an editor on Facebook on Thursday night, and he said he’d love to see an SF novel proposal from me, so I suggested Earthright<\/i> as a possibility, and he thought it sounded interesting.<\/p>\n
So I pulled it out of mothballs, and over the weekend I wrote a ten-page outline of the whole thing, completing it about 3:00 Monday afternoon. The outline includes details I hadn’t worked out before that will require a few minor tweaks to the four and a half chapters I’ve written, but that’s not a big deal.<\/p>\n
I never had a working outline before, not really; I had the story in my head, but not on paper or disk anywhere, not as Earthright<\/i>. It was cobbled together from two other stories, “Legend” and Labyrinth<\/i>. “Legend” was a complete story for Marvel’s Open Space<\/b> #6 that was never used because the series got cancelled after #4. Labyrinth<\/i> was intended to be an Amelia Hand novel, but all I ever wrote of it was a four-page opening scene that got incorporated into Chapter Three of Earthright<\/i>. I knew the premise, but never wrote it down.<\/p>\n
Oh, and the title concept of Earthright<\/i> was originally a separate idea. <\/p>\n
Anyway, I wound up merging the three into Amelia Hand’s origin story. I initially tried to use the comic book script as an outline but diverged from it so quickly it became useless even before I got to the Labyrinth<\/i> part, and other than that, until now I never had an actual written outline.<\/p>\n
Now to clean it up and send it to my agent.<\/p>\n
13,207 words. (The difference from last time is almost entirely because this is a WordPerfect word-count and the previous one was Neo Office — WordPerfect always runs lower.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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