70k… approaching the endgame.

Well, in all the excitement of getting close to the end of Alpha Slip, I totally forgot to mark my 100th post! My first How-To article, Plot vs Story, capped off the centenary. Congratulations, Plot vs Story!

I really wanted to have another short ready to post here before the end of the month, but I haven’t even stopped to look at anything but Alpha Slip since May. This isn’t the quickest I’ve ever written a novel, but it’s the quickest I’ve ever written a novel that I liked. I’m thinking this draft will probably end up at the 80k mark. Then the second draft (which will be the first I release out to close friends for opinions) will be about the same – I can see at least 10-15k worth of rubbish that needs cutting, but there’s also a TON of secondary characterisation I completely forgot to include in this draft, leaving most of the characters as thin as a sneeze. If you missed my chatting about Alpha Slip entirely, I posted the first three chapters here.

Also, my Why We Fight article usurped my Mx Sucks Plebian Balls article as most popular post on the blog, which just goes to show all you folk are suckers for blood and nudity.

I just finished reading Brasyl, so I’ll have a (very positive) review of that up soon. In the meantime, keep writing, keep dancing, keep loving.