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086: Landmark

Somehow I just finished Chapter XIII, crossing the 50 page/25,000 word mark. If I was breaking things up into digestable chunks, this would be the first quarter of the book. This section would be known as THE WORLD IS NOT AS IT SEEMS, and would be the introduction of the characters and the core concepts which will be thrashed upon by the author over the next 75,000 words. And I'm realizing that I've accomplished that goal pretty well -- I've introduced the main players and gotten them into trouble. The next quarter will be THINGS GETTING WORSE and DEFINING HOW THE MONSTER WORKS -- important pieces to have so that the audience will be ready for the third section -- OH CRAP, THEY'LL NEVER SURVIVE. Which becomes a page-turning necessity on their part as they must discover HOW THE WORLD IS SAVED in part four.

Or something like that. I can probably turn this into a Robin Cook style equation for churning out Apocalyptic Thrillers.

Posted by Teppo at June 2, 2004 08:34 AM

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