I’ve been working on a fantasy project for a while and when I say “a while” I mean I’ve been picking it up, playing with it, adding a bit, deleting a bit, rearranging a bit (while I’ve been working on 2 other projects) for ohhh, maybe a year. It’s slow going because fantasy isn’t “my” genre. I’ve read it by various authors, but I’ve written none of it. Until now, obviously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yesterday afternoon I reached a point (after 15,736 words, to be precise) where I felt the story reached a natural break. I checked back with the original story arc (which still fits what’s been written so far – yay!), and I can see four natural changes of narrative. So what I was trying to decide, during this morning’s dogwalk, is either setting this up as Part 1 of 4 novellae, or treating it as a full-length book, and this is just the first section (of 4). Hmm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is and also isn’t a “what to do” with the project decision. I like<\/em> this project (despite the difficulties it’s giving me), and I’m enjoying the characters and their interactions. On a read-back a couple of nights ago, I actually laughed out loud at my own humour (I hope other people have the same degree of humour or I’m in desperate trouble).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The more I think about it right now, the more I’m leaning towards treating it as a 60k\/70k-word book of 4 parts, rather than 4 novellums (whatever the Latin plural is).<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, yeah, I’m going with that angle. Thanks for listening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been working on a fantasy project for a while and when I say “a while” I mean I’ve been picking it up, playing with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16115"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16122,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16115\/revisions\/16122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}