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lavanya_six) wrote2009-09-01 01:38 pm
lavanya_six) wrote2009-09-01 01:38 pm
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Current Project Status: August Review
Facing Fearful Odds -- Book 1: Earth (10 chapters planned)
Chapter 1 is 100% and UNDERGOING OMEGA EDIT. (10,799 words)
Chapter 2 is 100% and UNDERGOING OMEGA EDIT (15,297 words)
Chapter 3 is 100% and in GOLD BETA. (7,396 words)
Total Project Status as of 7/29/2009: Book 1 is 45% done, with a little over five chapters remaining. (62,060 words)
Total Project Status as of 9/1/2009: Book 1 is 50% done, with five chapters remaining. (72,030 words) (+9970)
Facing Fearful Odds -- Book 2: Fire (16 chapters planned)
Chapter 1 is 33% done, with two whole acts to write. (3,745 words)
Chapter 2 is 0% done. (0 words)
COMMENTS: August was the least productive month so far for FFO, with the narrative problems of Chapter 5 and the subsequent reconstruction of Chapter 5' sucking up nearly the entire month. However, I feel that the project has become stronger having overcome these narrative problems which would have otherwise seriously crippled FFO in the long-term. Working closely with my team of betas is resulting in better story, and I feel this validates the "Don't publish ANYTHING until it's all done" philosophy I've been testing on this particular fanfic project. When I've finished Book 1 and it comes time to sit down and write the last chunk of Taking Sights, doing the remaining chapters all in on go seems more and more to be the smart thing to do.
It's getting exciting as I approach the end of Book 1 of FFO. This is the first long-form fanfic I'll have ever finished, so it's a big thing for me.
I'm also daunted by the sheer scale of this story, which has grown far beyond what I initially expected. If the first five chapters amount to about 75,000 words then, taking that as an average, all forty-three planned chapters of Facing Fearful Odds will total to be over 600,000 words!!
Six hundred motherfucking thousand words.
And that's not even counting the novella one-shot finale I have planned... good Lord...
Oh a side note, I wrote one whole act of Chapter 1 of Book 2 in order to get a better grasp on where I want all the characters to end up, emotion-wise and plot-wise, at the end of Chapter 10 of Book 1.
Chapter 1 is 100% and UNDERGOING OMEGA EDIT. (10,799 words)
Chapter 2 is 100% and UNDERGOING OMEGA EDIT (15,297 words)
Chapter 3 is 100% and in GOLD BETA. (7,396 words)
Chapter 4 is 100% and in GOLD BETA. (16,423 words)
Chapter 5:
5-A' is 100% done, and undergoing BETA. (11,345 words)
5-B is 95% done, with one scene left. (8,239 words)
5-C is 10% done, with several key scenes yet to do. (1,283 words)
Chapter 6 is 5% done, with a metric shitton of stuff to write. (1,248 words)
Chapter 7 is 0% done. (0 words)
Chapter 8 is 0% done. (0 words)
Chapter 9 is 0% done. (0 words)
Chapter 10 is 0% done. (0 words)
Chapter 5:
5-A' is 100% done, and undergoing BETA. (11,345 words)
5-B is 95% done, with one scene left. (8,239 words)
5-C is 10% done, with several key scenes yet to do. (1,283 words)
Chapter 6 is 5% done, with a metric shitton of stuff to write. (1,248 words)
Chapter 7 is 0% done. (0 words)
Chapter 8 is 0% done. (0 words)
Chapter 9 is 0% done. (0 words)
Chapter 10 is 0% done. (0 words)
Total Project Status as of 7/29/2009: Book 1 is 45% done, with a little over five chapters remaining. (62,060 words)
Total Project Status as of 9/1/2009: Book 1 is 50% done, with five chapters remaining. (72,030 words) (+9970)
Facing Fearful Odds -- Book 2: Fire (16 chapters planned)
Chapter 1 is 33% done, with two whole acts to write. (3,745 words)
Chapter 2 is 0% done. (0 words)
COMMENTS: August was the least productive month so far for FFO, with the narrative problems of Chapter 5 and the subsequent reconstruction of Chapter 5' sucking up nearly the entire month. However, I feel that the project has become stronger having overcome these narrative problems which would have otherwise seriously crippled FFO in the long-term. Working closely with my team of betas is resulting in better story, and I feel this validates the "Don't publish ANYTHING until it's all done" philosophy I've been testing on this particular fanfic project. When I've finished Book 1 and it comes time to sit down and write the last chunk of Taking Sights, doing the remaining chapters all in on go seems more and more to be the smart thing to do.
It's getting exciting as I approach the end of Book 1 of FFO. This is the first long-form fanfic I'll have ever finished, so it's a big thing for me.
I'm also daunted by the sheer scale of this story, which has grown far beyond what I initially expected. If the first five chapters amount to about 75,000 words then, taking that as an average, all forty-three planned chapters of Facing Fearful Odds will total to be over 600,000 words!!
Six hundred motherfucking thousand words.
And that's not even counting the novella one-shot finale I have planned... good Lord...
Oh a side note, I wrote one whole act of Chapter 1 of Book 2 in order to get a better grasp on where I want all the characters to end up, emotion-wise and plot-wise, at the end of Chapter 10 of Book 1.