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September 04, 2007
Men and Women of Earth!
You will have noticed by now that I haven't updated this site since, I'm told, June of this year. To be honest, I haven't had much to say. The book, which should be done tomorrow, has gone very smoothly, surprisingly so. I have no idea why it's gone so well, but it's been a pleasure. Which doesn't make for good blog fodder.
I was asked on Friday, August 31, which was my contract deadline for the book, if I'd made the deadline. Sadly, not quite. As I say, I should wrap it up tomorrow afternoon. I expect the final total to be around 112,000 words or so. Of course, once I'm done with the overall story, I then have to go through the MS and strip out several chapters, which were part of a secondary storyline I'd tried out, but which didn't go that well, or at least as well as the rest of the book. Since Publisher Brian wants me to bring this book in somewhere between 80K-90K or so, taking out these chapters should do the trick nicely, and bring the final, final, final word count into that sweet spot.
The main reasons I didn't make the deadline, I should add, were (a) Michelle and I got sick with what we in Australia would call "a dose of gastro" (and which people in North America would call "stomach flu") for a week, and there was another week lost due to an unexpected family emergency involving my parents. Fear not: all is well. But I did lose those two weeks.
Meanwhile, I've recently been lured over to the Facebook side. So far, it's pretty good fun. Please feel free to come and look me up and say hello. I'm listed as "Adrian Bedford" (by eerie coincidence, my real name!).
Posted by adrian at September 4, 2007 07:50 PM
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