The Serpent Prince

[lenora_rose]

We have a draft!

The Serpent Prince is complete at 116,000 words.

But I was letting myself run long in the last sections, with the mantra "Edit later. Draft now."

Today's word count comes in at 7375 words, though 1400 of those already existed in the form of a scene I had to write for James D. Macdonald for Viable Paradise. They only got polished and edited a bit, strictly to fit them with mildly altered circumstances. So my character has managed to break a country, dive off a waterfall, and end the book at a place that I hope people won't strangle me for leaving book one, since there is an arc of sorts resolved. Somewhere.

Yesterday's was a more modest 2300, because I only wanted to plough through one major plot point I'd figured out how to deal with.

During the trip From July 21 to August 9, I wrote considerably less on this project; 9000 words through the whole thing. However, that's because I took a break when I hit the major plot point mentioned above, which I wasn't sure how to resolve.

I also managed 8k on a whole new project that started as a frivolous if rather kinky PWP and seems determined to grow a plot instead, 800 words on Soldier of the Road, and 900 words on one of the Armageddon stories.

Next project plans seem to be pointing at Labyrinth, and one additional scene of the not-a-PWP to prove there really is a plot in there. Though *I* don't know what most of it is.

But right Now, BED!
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I have a partly finished post on the trip itself, BTW, It will probably get posted Saturday> Short version: Great trip, met up with and caught up with lots of family and friends, would have been better without the vehicular difficulties.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[lenora-rose.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Now comes the bit where I abandon it for months then cut the fat....

[amy34.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on finishing your draft!

[lenora-rose.livejournal.com]

I'm still debating whether it was really wise to be up to 4:30 doing so, though.

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

Yay for draft!

[lenora-rose.livejournal.com]

Yay! Now, would that there were fewer steps afterwards...

[vilashna.livejournal.com]

I didn't end up really having time before with everything (sowwy :/)... do you still need help reading and whatnot?

[lenora-rose.livejournal.com]

No need for apology. You were getting married. It's as good an excuse as you'll ever get (And not one I imagine you'll be repeating again soon... ;)

This is a different story from the one you were going to read; having finished a draft doesn't quite mean it's ready for other eyes yet. Traditional writing advice (and this seems to work for me) after finishing a draft is to work one somethign else until the project is a bit more distant, then edit - then send to other people to peek at.

That being said, the one you were going to look at could possibly still use a look. It did get revised a bit more since you got the opening chapters (Based on some comments of Iulianna's and something I figured out at Keycon), so you might want a fresh copy to work from.

[vilashna.livejournal.com]

Okay, can you bring it next time we hang out? Whenever that might be. I'll let you know my schedule for next week when I eventually someday maybe receive it :P if you might have time next week or in the evening one day this week - i'm on days for some reason.

[lenora-rose.livejournal.com]

Hopefully, it will be soon. Sorry; this week kind of got away on me.

I'll see if I can get Colin to print it again.