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So yet another day of Nano has rolled by and I’m still managing to cough out 1666+ words a day (the lighter blue lines above the red water line). I’ve added 11,795 words to the manuscript, which by my counter is just shy of 25% of Nano – roughly 3.6% ahead of where I need to be, or almost one full day (the surplus is the second, darker blue line in this visualization).<\/p>\n
Since my seed was the largest I ever started with – 32,793 words, including the complete novella “Stranded” plus all the story notes I put together over the months since I wrote that story – completing Nano this year will leave me with 82,793 words, which I’m guessing will be very close to a full manuscript. Most of my novels clock in around 150,000 words, but this one feels like 90K.<\/p>\n
Oh yeah, an excerpt:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cHow do I know,\u201d Toren said, \u201cyou won\u2019t send soldiers to evict us once your people come back here, whenever that is\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRoughly fifteen months,\u201d Serendipity said, looking at him sidelong. \u201cAnd no-one can evict you. I am Governor of Halfway, and I\u2019ve offered the crew of Independence oasis, and the ship a permanent berth. Leonid accepted. Halfway is Independence\u2019s home port now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Toren rocked on his heels a little. \u201cThere is no port, you foolish\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is a port,\u201d Serendipity said, jerking her head at the spaceport. \u201cIt\u2019s not a castle, it\u2019s not a mansion, it\u2019s not a secret lab\u2014though I suppose to Norylan\u2019s parents it was all of those things, to me it is the kernel of the civilization I hope to build here\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou build,\u201d Toren said. \u201cYou mean to build a civilization\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s why I came here,\u201d Serendipity said. \u201cThis port lay fallow for ten thousand years because a war cut off the spacelanes, and I was the first person to recognize that it might be restored, now that traffic has begun moving out here again\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIncluding from the Frontier,\u201d Toren said, staring off at the port, \u201cwhich didn\u2019t even exist ten thousand years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI had to move fast,\u201d Serendipity said. \u201cAfter all, you got here just when I did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Toren stared down at her. \u201cYou\u2019re crazy. Crazy, you know that? When the Allies get here, they\u2019re going to ship you off to a nutter\u2019s pod. And I still don\u2019t know whether me and my crew are going to have to flee when they come. And you know which of us is right?\u201d<\/p>\n
Serendipity\u2019s eyes tightened. \u201cNo,\u201d she admitted.<\/p>\n
Toren\u2019s eyes gleamed at her. \u201cMe neither.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Uh oh! Serendipity once again facing off with Toren? A dangerous development. What’s he figured out she hasn’t?<\/p>\n
Onward into the deep!<\/p>\n
-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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