Current Project Status: January Review

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Chapter 6 is 100% and is in GOLD BETA (37,146 words)
Chapter 7 is 85% done and UNDERGOING BETA. (22,990 words)
     * 6-A: 100% done (8,016 words)
     * 6-B: 100% done (10,121 words)
     * 6-C: 95% done, with the final scene undergoing a complete rewrite (4,844 words)
     * 6-D: 50% done, with only the key scenes done (2,711 words)
Chapter 8 is 10% done. (893 words)
Chapter 9 is 15% done. (3,102 words)
Chapter 10 is 10 % done. (2,022 words)

Total Project Status as of 9/1/2009: Book 1 is 50% done, with five chapters remaining. (72,030 words)
Total Project Status as of 10/1/2009: Book 1 is 56% done, with a little over four chapters remaining. (106,859 words) (+ 34,829)
Total Project Status as of 11/1/2009: Book 1 is 67% done, with a little over four chapters remaining. (113,544 words) (+ 6,685)
Total Project Status as of 12/1/2009: Book 1 is 72% done, with three chapters remaining. (121,097 words) (+ 7,553)
Total Project Status as of 1/1/2010: Book 1 is 75% done, with three chapters remaining. (135,392 words) (+14,295 words)
Total Project Status as of 2/1/2010: Book 1 is 75% done, with three chapters remaining. (146,215 words) (+10,823 words)


Comments: Pretty average month, production wise. I finished off 7-C and got a great deal done on 7-D after fussing over how the chapter's Sokka/Toph plot would ultimately be resolved. Chapter 7 establishes a lot of the setting and conflicts on the two-part finale, Chapters 9 and 10, so as I was writing 7-C and 7-D I went ahead and started writing portions of the subsequent three chapters. I'm definitely getting nearer the end of production on FFO Book 1, though I still have a ways to go.

I've been continuing my plotting for Book 2 and have over seven thousand words done so far on Chapter 11 (Chapter 1 of Book 2). Owing to my having recently read and enjoyed the Mistborn Trilogy, I'm considering using retrospective journal documents as a chapter framing device for Book 2.

February will most likely be an unproductive month. I should finish 7-D and Chapter 8, which is a short one-shot interlude consisting of 5 drabbles, but other than that a lot of my focus will be on writing my AU Big Bang novella entry, The Bastard of Kyoshi Island (BoKI), and finishing my Yue-centric one-shot Mere Darkness. I may be revamping BoKI from its existing outline into a more 'stream of consciousness' story. Or not. We'll see.