halfway, again
So, I’ve been working on my second “book” for about a month now. I’m 32k in, which should be about halfway. I’m also at chapter 15 out of my planned 20 on my outline. Although the final chapters will be denser than the beginning ones, it seems like I may need to add some things; don’t want to end up with a novella. My goal was to hit 70-75k, then edit it down to about 62k. We’ll see…
Midpoints of large projects are uplifting, because the end point suddenly lumbers into view, and you can feel better about yourself and your capabilities and all that. Which is good.
It’s definitely going faster than my first attempt – that took me a year to get this far – maybe longer! Still, not nearly as fast as I’d like to: either I don’t have the time, or when I do I’m really not in the mood (late evening kid burnout, or holding a kid).
So, “what is it?” you ask ( I assume you ask because you’ve bothered to read this far).
I’m trying for basic pulp fantasy this time around. Swords and sorcery. A (small) dragon or two. A heroine and a hero. No unicorns (yet?). Not quite epic fantasy, but with the potential to bloom into that with later books in the series. Yes, it’s the first book in another series. I can’t concept a book that stands on its own. /shrug.
It’s about… a sword and the woman he loves. More or less.
The sword loves a woman? That’s hot. And bloody?
Drawing up a map for the area where this takes place…realizing it would take much longer to get from place to place than I guessed at first. Which means things need to happen in that time. Or else explicitly not happen. Yay!
Note for future fantasy writing:
Maps help quite a bit.
Maps help for magic realism, too.