Boarders writing a novel, part 10

[Arthmail]

Finished my fourth book, third in the series. In Stone clocks in at 183,000 words. It took my 2.5 months to complete the entire first draft, but I lost a fair amount of time during Christmas, so it was in truth a little less on a per day business. I had a monster day of 11k words on Sunday, which was cool.

Having decided to go through the self-published route I suddenly find myself free of the constraints of worrying about word count to the detriment of the story. That being said, I have the benefit of a dedicated editor and several proof readers. Salome Sand Witch from the boards is doing the editing, while JEORDHI and Monday are proving invaluable proof readers, amongst a few others not on the board. It has been a real benefit getting to know some of the boarders in my city of residence.

I've set for myself a fairly rigorous schedule:

Go through the final fixes to In Scars by the end of the month. Now that I'm going indie I can jettison the word count problem that forced the end of the book to be more compressed than I would have liked. A benefit to finishing the third book (In Stone) in the series is that a character that was problematic, meaning that she was not as fleshed out as some other characters, is suddenly more vivid in my mind. Now I can fix her chapters in this book to reflect her character.

In Sorrows: Third draft and edit.

House of Water: The stand alone novel. Second and Third draft before the edit.

I'm aiming to have all three books ready to go for the end of august to be released as e-books. Currently looking for a graphic artist for the covers. Likely going to have an audio book of In Scars ready at the same time, though as I am relying on SSW for that, and considering the work load I've set before her, that might not happen. We shall see.

[First of My Name]

Congrats, Arthmail!

We're over 400 posts, so I'll start a new version.

ETA: http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/103907-boarders-writing-a-novel-part-11/

[The Marquis de Leech]

Fun fact discovered while editing over the weekend: I killed the wrong guy in chapter 8.

:)

I had to revive him, bring in another red shirt, and then devise another way for him to die. The protagonist was adamant in making sure I was right this time before driving the dagger under the new guy's chin. The resurrected character is recovering and is expected to live.

For the near future.

I've had a variant of that. The same guy dies, but he was killed by the wrong person.

[TrackerNeil]

Finished my fourth book, third in the series. In Stone clocks in at 183,000 words. It took my 2.5 months to complete the entire first draft, but I lost a fair amount of time during Christmas, so it was in truth a little less on a per day business. I had a monster day of 11k words on Sunday, which was cool.

Having decided to go through the self-published route I suddenly find myself free of the constraints of worrying about word count to the detriment of the story. That being said, I have the benefit of a dedicated editor and several proof readers. Salome Sand Witch from the boards is doing the editing, while JEORDHI and Monday are proving invaluable proof readers, amongst a few others not on the board. It has been a real benefit getting to know some of the boarders in my city of residence.

I've set for myself a fairly rigorous schedule:

Go through the final fixes to In Scars by the end of the month. Now that I'm going indie I can jettison the word count problem that forced the end of the book to be more compressed than I would have liked. A benefit to finishing the third book (In Stone) in the series is that a character that was problematic, meaning that she was not as fleshed out as some other characters, is suddenly more vivid in my mind. Now I can fix her chapters in this book to reflect her character.

In Sorrows: Third draft and edit.

House of Water: The stand alone novel. Second and Third draft before the edit.

I'm aiming to have all three books ready to go for the end of august to be released as e-books. Currently looking for a graphic artist for the covers. Likely going to have an audio book of In Scars ready at the same time, though as I am relying on SSW for that, and considering the work load I've set before her, that might not happen. We shall see.

Yay you!