You know all those problems I was talking about with direction last time? Well, it only takes one good chapter to right everything again and surely enough, shortly after I wrote the last blog post, I hit that chapter. It's not that anything significant has actually changed in where I'm going with the story, it's just that I hit a certain tone in that chapter that reinvigorated the way I felt about the story. Whenever I describe what the book is about I avoid the vampires and werewolves part, because that has obvious problems with people's assumptions. (Quite reasonable assumptions, I might add.) But I think I'm doing okay with it now. I do know that it's going to be more than 50,000 words long. I'll definitely get to the 50k by Thursday, I'm at 43,413 now, so should be no problem.
I also created a spreadsheet for An Odyssey of Shadows, that maps out how the word count is distributed between the different characters in the book. It's quite cool, I like it a lot. I like reading about those kinds of stats, I really enjoyed reading the Wheel of Time stats like this. And I also found out some interesting stats about my own writing. First off, my chapters are shorter than they were in Songlord. I suppose it's because I'm jumping from character to character, but it was a bigger difference than I expected. Clarissa has the longest chapters, on average. Edric, obviously, has the most words from his point of view.
Looking forward to the big ramp up to the finish!
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