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A Milestone, of Sorts
I have just finished the first draft of Shadow of the Dragon King, almost a year and a half after posting the first chapter. There are six chapters (some 40,000 words) to go from the current update so it'll be a while before the readers see everything. It won't even be the same text because whoa, hella editing to do, but still I have the base of the thing. Dragon King could end up a lot of bad things, but at the very least it will never be an incomplete story, not according to the current outline anyway.
Since the project will change and grow from this point (hopefully smaller, not bigger), and because I am stupidly excited about the whole thing, here is the current snapshot of Scrivener's Project Statistics. Disregard the top part, I have no idea what that 3,619-word section is and I'm going crazy trying to figure it out. The Selection below it, current selection being the top-level Project folder, is closer to the actual word count. Pages (paperback) is at 350 words a page, which is the default option.
Still left: One or two possible interludes and two or three side stories to write, beta-reading to be gotten, editorial decisions to make like what scenes to add or delete or how to arrange them (in one chapter the scenes are more or less in random order right now), lower-level editing and, when all is done, chapters to print out and check one last time before posting.
Since there's still so much work left on the story I'm happy I got the first draft out of the way before the end of summer, since the upcoming semester is going to be hectic. I've met my writing goals for the summer, and can move onto... uh... the giant tottering pile that is everything else in my life. *panics and runs away*
Since the project will change and grow from this point (hopefully smaller, not bigger), and because I am stupidly excited about the whole thing, here is the current snapshot of Scrivener's Project Statistics. Disregard the top part, I have no idea what that 3,619-word section is and I'm going crazy trying to figure it out. The Selection below it, current selection being the top-level Project folder, is closer to the actual word count. Pages (paperback) is at 350 words a page, which is the default option.
Still left: One or two possible interludes and two or three side stories to write, beta-reading to be gotten, editorial decisions to make like what scenes to add or delete or how to arrange them (in one chapter the scenes are more or less in random order right now), lower-level editing and, when all is done, chapters to print out and check one last time before posting.
Since there's still so much work left on the story I'm happy I got the first draft out of the way before the end of summer, since the upcoming semester is going to be hectic. I've met my writing goals for the summer, and can move onto... uh... the giant tottering pile that is everything else in my life. *panics and runs away*