excitedTotal words: 156,890*
Total chapters: thirty-one chapters, divided into five 'books' and a coda.
Total pages: 574.
Started: September 4th, 2005, on the plane back from Seattle.
Finished: December 27th, 2007, sitting at Tony's kitchen table, in Seattle.
Updates finished: June 3rd, 2008, in my bedroom.
After six months of being allowed to sit quietly in a drawer maturing, I'm finally starting the process of line-editing and revising Feed, my epic novel of zombies, politics, blogging, how George Romero accidentally saved the world and the tragic duty of the journalist. I forgot how much this book excites me just by existing. I love the setting, I love the characters, and I love the structure of it all.
Now it's time to really get down to brass tacks, and start beating this baby into shape. Even assuming the standard 10% loss between drafts, it's going to remain the longest thing I've ever written -- and quite frankly, I think it's the best.
Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.
(*After the additions requested by my first draft proofreading list, this is an increase of 6,802 words. Which is a very amusing number.)
June 5 2008, 11:51:31 UTC 9 years ago
I love your Newsflesh icon btw - great quote! :D
Merry >^..^
June 6 2008, 13:58:12 UTC 9 years ago
What's funny: I had the icon before I got to the part of the book that the quote is from. For ages, I just thought it was a tag line, not an actual quote from the text.
Heh.