The chronicles word counter!

Title: Night Never Ends (was WTNNE)
Genre: Angel Heart territory
Word Count: 36,600
Status: Completed.
 
mad_iguana said:
Been busy with work, pregnant wife and 9mth old baby for the past fortnight, so have gotten very little done, but I revised a good chunk of the middle of Part 2, and have started to insert a new Chapter 2 into Part 1 to try to flesh out some background that I realised was insufficiently explained. Not sure if it's going to work yet, but it's worth a go.
Anyway, current word count is around 152,250 or so.
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Progress has been very slow since my spurt of work in mid/late November.
Have been busy reviewing and editing Book 1 - that now has a title ("A Shadow") - and adding in much more useful backstory and snippets of information that will help to explain things that happen later, including some new characters (major in the context of this book, minor in the context of the whole work). So the progress report now:

Title: A Shadow (Book 1), Untitled (Book 2)
Genre: Fantasy
Word Count: 83,500 (Book 1), 78,200 (Book 2)
Status: Have added 11,000 words to Book 1 so far, and have only made it as far as the end of the old Chapter 3 (which is now the new Chapter 7!). Much of the rest of Book 1 will be relatively unchanged, but I'd expect to end it with approximately 100,000 words. My hope is to then do something similar with Book 2, after which I will make a decision on whether either of them work as standalone books; if so I will consider submitting the first to an agent.
In any event, will be starting on Book 3 some time in the interim.
 
My "Little Starmaid", a slightly warped fairy tale in geostationary orbit, stands (or possibly flits) at 7046 words, which was within an order of magnitude of what I was aiming at. Now the Cat tells me it finishes too abruptly, without the requisite denoument; worse, she's right.

And that will take at least four or five hundred more words – perhaps, as it includes a speech to the UN, a thousand.

Which will leave it within acceptable length, but close to submission deadlines. And better. Particularly as I know how the infighting must go, as I've already written the outcome.

To keyboard!
 
Oooh! ^ Submitted it yet? ;)

For me:

The Barbarians' Key. 41000 words. Some of that's notes and future scenes.
 
Mouse said:
Oooh! ^ Submitted it yet? ;)

For me:

The Barbarians' Key. 41000 words. Some of that's notes and future scenes.
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No, there's a scene fighting back.
And she's at 8374 words, with more coming (if with difficulty); she's going to need some pruning to stay balanced.

Yours accepted?
 
This was a good idea. It`s just what I need to give me a nudge in the right direction. :)

Finished:
Dragon Oath book one: Destiny.
Scifi fantasy.
Word count: 108,446. 213 pages including maps and artwork for each chapter (22 chapters)

Unfinished:
Dragon Oath book two: Guardian.
Scifi fantasy.
Word count:24.678.
 
Mouse said:
I've not heard back yet. Don't know if that's a good sign!
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Don’t worry about it Mouse. This genre is the most difficult one to get published in. Where others might have a door to try opening, we have a tiny crack to squeeze through. But if you have confidence in yourself you’ll succeed at anything you wish. The laws of attraction apply to us all, we just have to believe in ourselves. :)
 
Cheers. This is actually a short story I'm talking about. Had a few published but me and Chrispy are going for the same anthology! (And I still haven't heard back!)
 
The Heir to the North
albatross-like epic fantasy
110000
another milestone reached, and still struggling through to the second half of the book. ouch. these things don't write themselves, dammit.
 
chopper said:
albatross-like epic fantasy
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Ah, you mean soaring gracefully over strange and adventurous seas, blown by winds of poesy from far exotic lands. Sounds good.

still struggling through to the second half of the book.
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To the second half? At 110,000? Ouch indeed.

Anyway, I don't remember you mentioning that one before. Did it go by another title, or have I just been inattentive?

My update after lord knows how many months:

The Goddess Project/Makers/Masters/Whatever
Some kind of fantasy.
About 140,000

Got to try to wrap it up in a few thousand words. Now everybody's in one place, I'm thinking meteorite ...
 
HTTN=Malassar's Curse, Part One
Well, i say through to the second half, but my chapter planner has 22 chapters and what i'm writing now should have been in chapter 13....
Actually, looking at that again, i only need chapters 14-18 & 21 to complete the first draft. so the end is in sight, but it still feels like i'm looking at my destination through the wrong end of a telescope.

meteorites are always good.
 
P for Pleistocene

Finished chapter #32 after an epic struggle with the blues.

Getting PfP's sequel's rough opening ('The Lady May') critiqued here helped get *that* out of my system. I was able to tackle chapter #33 with a clear head. In fact, it almost wrote itself.

Current word count is ~98,400 with a fair way to go...
 
P for Pleistocene

Well, it isn't great literature, but I've just banged out the last of chapter #34, approx 1800 words.

Tomorrow, Day #35, it RAINS and little else happens...
 
chopper said:
The Heir to the North
albatross-like epic fantasy
110000
another milestone reached, and still struggling through to the second half of the book. ouch. these things don't write themselves, dammit.
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117000 words
and, more importantly, chapter 14 has finally been wrestled into submission. at 10500 words, it looks like it will be sawn in half come the edit. chapter 15 is currently looking very scared. chapter 9 is still half-dressed.

onwards!!
 
Latest update after 2 months of radio silence

Title: A Shadow (Book 1 - though I'm unsure about this title now), Untitled (Book 2)
Genre: Fantasy
Word Count: 104,600 (Book 1), 78,200 (Book 2)
Status: Have added another 21,000 words to Book 1 so far since the last update, and have only made it almost to the end of the old Chapter 9 (which is now the new Chapter 16).
So much for the theory above that "much of the rest of Book 1 will be relatively unchanged"!
I ended up adding a few more characters that have a parallel storyline that really adds a layer to the whole thing, I think. So I'm happy with that.
As things stand, I'd be looking at 22 chapters if I don't add any more, but realistically I'll be adding at least 1 more and possibly 2.
I'd expect another 10,000+ words in Book 1; then it goes to one side and I'll either start doing the same editing process to Book 2 or start on Book 3 (probably the latter).
Then it's a matter of wondering whether to submit to agents or not.

I've also started a blog where I'm going to jot down musings and updates on progress and maybe some extracts if I get any audience at any point...:confused:;)
 
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