Slogging away at the novel.

[matt_doyle]

I am, I think, finally committed to The Hellion Prince as my next project; I have 27,000+ words written, in nonlinear, fragmentary scenes (I estimate at least 10k of these words will be cut eventually, but still).

This is a much bigger book than I thought it was.

Running In Her Veins, when all was said and done, tallied up at 91,723 words. That's not a very long novel, maybe 300 pages at most. I knew Hellion Prince would be longer - maybe half as long again, I estimated, a nice respectable 400-pager.

Even if I assume those 10k words of fluff are going to be cut... I'm not even ten percent done with the damned thing. Even if I were, 170,000 words is still Later Harry Potter Territory, and more than that... yikes.

Presuming I ever finish this, how the Hell will I sell it?

Comments

[capnflynn.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Finish first, then worry about selling. Maybe start working on selling RIHV to polish those skills while you write Hellion Prince?

So do you typically write non-linear-ish-ly? O__O Everyone's techniques are so different!

[matt_doyle]

No, I usually write start to finish; Hellion Prince has been baffling me in the way that it comes to me. The further I go, the closer to linear it gets, but that's not saying too much so far.