February 2015

An update for those interested.

Old Business

The Titan 3030 Manuscript is resting at 6 words shy of 76,000 words, 268 pages, and in the fourteenth of fifteen chapters, +/- pro/epi-logue.

I’m still in desperate need of a graphic artist who is interested supplying illustrations and web-content visuals with a negotiable arrangement of web-comic / graphic-e-novel project.

Short story “The Krill” is opened by many, read by few. If this is applies to you; you know what to do.

Birthday completion deadline failed, but it served to be conducive to production levels.

Stats:

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February, 19, 2012: Story is not even conceived, final semester of undergraduate study.

August / September 2012: First 20 pages of outline for 7 book Epic Novel series created.

October 30th: I updated a facebook status stating I had completed chapter 3.

November: I decide to start prequel that turns into Rings of Rhea, decide on a 3 book follow up series to prequel. Decide release order of (sos)1,2,3(ror)1(sos)4,5,6,7(ror)2,3,4 making 11 total books.

There seemed to be a fairly large gap in narrative construction of the novel. Much of this time was spent working at measured progress as a temp-slave or fruitlessly applying for jobs no one wanted to talk to me about.

April 14th 2013: Purchased 1889 dictionary from thrift shop.

June 5th 2013: Facebook status ‘Come on words, form sentences.’

September 6th 2013: Facebook status update indicating I have first A-Z outline of Titan3030 done, “filling most of the big holes”.

September 24th: on Facebook I posted a status indicating I needed to decide on a last name for my protagonist.

September 28th 2013: I purchased the Titan3030.com domain and put up the web-blog for manuscript progress.

October 9th 2013: Blog update indicates I’m mid-chapter 4 and thinking about chapter 5.

October 18th 2013: Blog update, first character profile page created.

January 6th 2014: “As it stands for 2014, I entered the year with 25k words in the draft. Chapters One through Five are considered draft-complete.”

February 10th 2014: Blog update indicating that I know where “Shwha” goes.

February 28th 2014: FB status “Another day of plotting 250 years of pirate family history”

March 2nd 2014: FB status “Proliferating 250 years of fictional family history becomes taxing around the ninth generation, fyi”

March 25th 2014: FB status “It feels like for every 5000 words in notes, I get about 500 words of congruent text. It's interesting to watch this story of mine unfold; some parts take longer to 'cook' than others.”

March 28th 2014: Infamous 3/28/14 blog update. “The compilation file I have, (which is essentially, each individual chapter pasted into one document for the sake of analyzing progress) is 90 pages long. 90 pages, wow; Easily the longest thing I’ve ever written so far. Word count: 28,095 words.”

March 31st 2014: I indicate how much writing code hurts my brain. Speaking to the development of the website PHP / AJAX backend

June 4th 2014: FB status “Finished my programing project; feel victorious. Now for the next module. *cracks knuckles*”

July 31st 2014 / August 1st: Blog update “As slow as it may seem, I’m still working on chapter 7, or 8, I think.”

August 11th 2014: Back to writing this week. Current stats include 113 pages typed, 35k words; working on chapter 8 of 15.

October 2nd 2014: FB status “Whenever I read about current research and discoveries being made about Titan, it makes me excited I put my first story there. First methane oceans; now cyanide clouds! Love this place.”

October 23rd 2014: FB status “In other news, short story I'm working on as a teaser-sort-of for the novel, 3.2k words, the novel its self is closing in on 40k. I hope to have a presentable version of the short by the end of the month.”

October 29th 2014: FB status “Short story draft complete. Needs revisions then I can share. 7,282 words, 21 pages. If you feel like reading it for the purpose of editing, please message me.”

October 31st 2014: Short story is published on Titan3030.com

November 3rd 2014: Blog update puts word count at 40k.

November 5th 2014: FB update “First Nanowrimo-custom-challenge mile marker met. Ch8 done.”

November 8th 2014: blog update “So far chapter 9 is about 2,500 or so words deep… The novel draft is at 144 pages, 43,856 words at the writing of this entry. Chapter 9 is waiting on page 7.”

November 10th 2014: FB updates “Nanowrimo custom challenge mile marker two complete: Chapter 9 draft: ~5500 words (all but one scene). Book total: 47152 words. 6 chapters to go… 48,500 words; an eerie stillness falls over the city.”

November 11th 2014: FB status “49k”

November 12th 2014: Blog update “Where am I at? Manuscript draft word count: 49,435 words at the month of November. When I began November, I was somewhere in the mid to upper 30k’s for word count”

November 14th 2014: FB status “51k”

November 16th 2014: Blog update “Today’s a day. Here’s an update.  51635 words in the manuscript. Actively, painfully, writing Chapter 10, still.”

November 17th 2014: FB update “54k words”

November 18th 2014: FB updates indicate 55.5k words, chapter 10 finished.

November 23rd 2014: FB update “58k words, 202 pages”

November 24th 2014: Blog update “Progress- There has been some. Not as much as I would have liked. 58,100 words. 200+ pages now.”

December 29th 2014: FB status ” Entered 2014 with 25k words in my manuscript. Just broke the 60k mark. Chapter 11 of 15 and climbing, word by word, as I would imagine an ascent of Kilimanjaro might be like.”

January 2nd 2015: Blog update “I did manage to end the year with a word count of 60k+. In terms of regular 8×11 pages double spaced 11 font, that’s 210+ pages.”

January 7th 2015: FB status “62K words. 3.75 chapters left”

January 16th 2015: FB status “64.5k+ words, chapter 12 is crawling. Up to 225 pages.”

January 17th 2015: FB status “65k. Those 3 characters don't do it justice, really.”

January 20th 2015: FB status “66.7k”

January 21st 2015: FB status “Chapter 12 (Draft) complete, weighing in at 6604 words, 23 pages, and lots of work to be done in revision phase.”

January 30th 2015: FB status “68k. Chapter 13 is moving again.”

February 10th 2015: FB status “70k words. Chapter 13 is 80% done content.”

February 13th 2015: FB status “Chapter 13 done. ~72k words. Detailed outline for 14, 15 done. 5 days to deadline. yikes!”

February 15th 2015: FB status “Big dent in ch.14 73.6K”

February 16th 2015: FB status “75k”