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It took me five freaking years to research and write the first draft of Connor. I was too exhausted to celebrate after posting the final chapter. Although I did get a kick out of some reviewers' reactions to the twist at the end.
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Ok time to get started w/ my 2022 project. I've outlined this at 42 chapters, so if I post 1 chapter/week I can finish by Christmas. (This rate is basically impossible, so I'll probably finish by summer 2023)
Started the 4th and final part. If I stick to my (current) outline I'll land at exactly 42 chapters. But to get there, Brent's re-appearance had to go. He's an extra 5-10 chapters by himself which is too much. Cracks the 100K word mark which is a no-no in today's market. On average words per day, it'll take 10 weeks to finish, but I do tend to write faster as I get to the end, so might by 7-8 weeks. Summer 2023 deadline in sight
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If you have a great story, what's an extra 50K words? Think LOTR. :-)
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Meh... it's better without him. So deleting him has a more succinct (eg greater?) story. And he can serve his full role in a sequel.
As a bonus, I can now boot him out of Andrea's story which gives her more time to think about Andrea-things. He was really only there to support why/how he resurfaces in Laurie's. Because Andrea had to get him to Charon to meet the crew. If he goes in a sequel, he can stay put on Venus and wait for the crew to get back.
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Taking some time to get to posting Book 3. Problem is it fails my 10-chapter story arc, which almost everything I write adheres to.
Part of me says who cares. Another part sees clever reworks to make it conform. A lot of work, tho. Doing it requires moving the final battle of 3 back home (It's in book 4 now). That means 4 would only have one cuIminary confrontation and remove 4 characters who could also "stay home" instead of tagging along for that resolution. So... much work but also much benefit. Ugh.
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Ugh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Army_knife
So is it:
Swiss army knife
Swiss Army knife
Swiss Army Knife
x.x
32 2023-07-09 15:25:17 (edited by Dirk B. 2023-07-09 15:30:31)
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Most of the dictionaries I checked say Swiss Army knife. Fyi, Swiss Army is a registered trademark, so that part is always capitalized.
33 2023-07-09 15:37:10 (edited by George FLC 2023-07-09 15:39:33)
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Dirk B. wrote:
Most of the dictionaries I checked say Swiss Army knife. Fyi, Swiss Army is a registered trademark, so that part is always capitalized.
If you're dealing with trade marks then Dirk is correct. BUT it's so well known that I'd be tempted to capitalize it all, out of respect.
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Feels weird to be between stories. Almost like the universe is out of alignment.
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Meh. Might start chipping away at K @ j 0 again. I figure 180k words to tell this version. A right monster that one... because he reaches into everyone else's story his gets inflated with useless cr*p
37 2023-09-01 00:26:31 (edited by Dirk B. 2023-09-01 01:07:39)
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According to kindlepreneur.com, here are some interesting stats:
Fantasy: 109,000 words on average (range 27,000-318,000)
Science fiction: 98,000 words on average (range 11,000-377,000)
Mystery/thriller/suspense: 91,000 words on average (range 14,000-196,000)
Religious fiction: 75,000 words on average (range 13,000-161,000)
Action/adventure: 96,000 words on average (range 16,000-299,000)
- Naturally, unpublished authors are usually told to err on the low side, assuming you want to publish professionally, where word count=publishing costs). Although it's a good thing Frank Herbert, J.K. Rowling, and Tolkien stuck to their guns.
- George Lucas, however, thought that a long plot for the prequels would be appreciated by most fans, although we know how those turned out (I was okay with Ep. 3 but didn't even bother taking Ep. 1 and 2 with me when I returned to Canada).
I moved the rest of this post to my Archangel thread to keep this thread mostly on point.
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K.dot wrote:
Ok time to get started w/ my 2022 project. I've outlined this at 42 chapters, so if I post 1 chapter/week I can finish by Christmas. (This rate is basically impossible, so I'll probably finish by summer 2023)
I'm eager to get this one all writted up because many of my original ideas (such as having a city under quarantine for the flu) are no longer fiction. If I wait much longer to release, maybe Nasa will find a way to put people on Charon
Hey, Summer 2023. I finished posting.
ChatGPT showed up, doing many things that were magic when I penned chapter 1.
No humans on Charon (yet). Or Venus... but that's a given.
Speed of light remains unbroken. Probably will be for my lifetime unless another Einstein shows up.
52 chapters... 10 over the planned amount, so a lot of bloat.
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Schrödinger's cat goes back in the box and sealed with handwavium tape
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Congratulations.
You said>>52 chapters... 10 over the planned amount, so a lot of bloat.
It's not bloat if it's good reading, correct?
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Congratulations.
You said>>52 chapters... 10 over the planned amount, so a lot of bloat.
It's not bloat if it's good reading, correct?
It landed at 75k words, which I consider manageable so I'm not going to fight Laurie on her excessive chapter count. And by excess, I mean she's added 25% of unplanned material which is high for a v5. If she does the same in v6, that'd be 97k words at which point all the characters would get a stern talking to.
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Schrödinger's cat goes back in the box and sealed with handwavium tape
Not handwavium. This is one of many studies converging on an idea involving an understanding deeper than Minkowski space-time, in which other solutions of Einstein's General Relativity field equations make sense, with three time-like and one space-like dimension, or even two and two. Quarternion descriptions have been suggested, too.
There's possibility of a real breakthrough here, along Einsteinian lines, to put GR and QM under a single solution. But it probably forces God playing dice into the Einsteinian framework ... the conquered assimilating the conquerer. Or maybe not.
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46 2023-09-13 14:38:07 (edited by George FLC 2023-09-13 14:53:45)
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If I understand the link above, then the world is hot - “Hycean exoplanet,” a theoretical type of exoplanet that runs hot but is covered in oceans and has a hydrogen-rich atmosphere.
This might be a strange question but I'm not an astrogeek. I'm not sure if the heat source is internal to the planet or external or both. I wonder how we can cool it down? Build 'sunglasses' for blocking some light?
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>>On Earth, dimethyl sulfide “is only produced by life,” according to NASA. “The bulk of the DMS in Earth’s atmosphere is emitted from phytoplankton in marine environments.”
Wow!
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George FLC wrote:
This might be a strange question but I'm not an astrogeek. I'm not sure if the heat source is internal to the planet or external or both. I wonder how we can cool it down? Build 'sunglasses' for blocking some light?
My understanding is (like Mercury) you could simply build in a cooler part like the north pole. If life exists there (as we know life) that'ss probably where it's sitting
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George FLC wrote:This might be a strange question but I'm not an astrogeek. I'm not sure if the heat source is internal to the planet or external or both. I wonder how we can cool it down? Build 'sunglasses' for blocking some light?
My understanding is (like Mercury) you could simply build in a cooler part like the north pole. If life exists there (as we know life) that'ss probably where it's sitting
I think your key comment is "as we know life". I must be careful. I know there is a fish in the SW USA (?) that swims in naturally boiling water. I would never has guessed that one. So, who knows what is lurking on those hot planets.
