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*scuttles out of cave in great agitation dramatically abandoning an outline in a fit*

*notices blinking red alarm light*

*checks it out*

“forum update from” *checks date* “three days ago?! HOW?”

 

@noah-cochran

Wow, three books in one book? Is it gonna be 200k+ words? If so, fantastic! (I have a great liking for long books that aren’t Charles Dickens xD). How many words are you through it?

Uhhhh (squints over legit 50 word docs that are stops and starts and related stories that I discovered the hard way belonged in LCoD).

Wait. How the crap do I actually have 25,500 + words in a single doc on this?!!!! And it’s actually cohesive?! I … might have this actually better put together than I thought.

And I have another doc that’s 34,000 words… but some of those are rewritten scenes back to back. Does that count? 🤔

Anyway. There were enough replottings that needed to be done because I really want to give the readers time with other critical characters – because character-driven plots baby that’s why!

But a lot of what I’ve written is from Burn’s POV (it is legit the only 1st person POV that I’ve liked writing and thought was good.) And my first draft is really gonna be focused on that plot. I guesstimate it will be about 50,000 words when I finish. The gimmick is these are stories that Burn is telling the ghost of someone he cares about while he’s dying. (That’s legit the prologue.)

The other plotline is his friends trying to find out what happened to him when they got separated and how to save him plus … other things.

The THIRD plotline is about Grimme’s past.

I think that each plot thread will take about 50,000 words buuuuuuut I’m focused on character growth so if it takes more words, it takes more words. I’ll stick with what the story dictates.

Nice! So video games will mostly be using programming languages, right? I am quite ignorant when it comes to video game production. 🙃

Weeeeeeell there is a LOT that goes into video games. (Music production, character design, plotting, graphics, game-play itself, branding, marketing, coding…)

I want to do the online computer games like the flashplayer stuff @ragnarok plays. Ya’know. BEFORE unnamed companies did great evils to the online gaming world. ☹️ This seems more attainable, frankly, than say, Metoid Prime or Halo. Though perhaps something like “Mario and the Music Box” is doable. If I go with that though, I might enlist @this-is-not-an-alien for art. 🤷‍♀️

Are you still in college?

Thank our sweetest Savior I am NOT anymore! 😃

 

BTW I’m still pulling together an outline for Lost City of Dragons, if you want to critique it, you can give me your email address and I’ll send it to you when I’m done! 😊 But no pressure if you’re not interested. And the outline will be bare bones because I’m a pantser.

In fact, @everyone, if you want to critique the outline you can. If enough people want to see it, I’ll just put it in the chat…

…because let’s be honest, we all know that there will be enough dramatic deviations from it by the time the story is finished that you probably won’t actually be spoilered. 😕

Oh well. Such is life.

*waves bye and returns to cave with a bunch of shiny screws and pebbles of strange colors*

*you start to wonder if I am dragon or goblin*