If you're interested in horse stories from me then I'm afraid you're going to have to wait as I'm still focusing on non-horse fiction at the minute. Life keeps getting in the way of that too. AtA Few Things About Working Towards The Future · 4:00pm Oct 3rd, 2013
Oh wow, it's been over a month since I made a blog post. Well, I'm still alive, as my updating my story will show you. My story is also why I'm here today in this particular blog post. I'm basically just writing things I'm going to stick in the author's notes at some point or another (probably tomorrow) but thought I would write them down here too for those who are curious. Plus just to get them out.
First of all, I have changed the cover art of the story. This is also ties into the second thing. I actually picked the cover art on a whim and after a while I realised that it actually perfectly fitted something that was going to happen, something that has now changed. The second thing is that I can now confirm that Working Towards The Future WILL be split into two stories. I think I said I had two or three major events left to happen in the story. If I'm thinking right (I'm ill, so you'll have to forgive me) I have 1...2...2 events left. There was a third which will now become the subject of it's own story. The second will feel like an ending, and so would the third, and so I decided to just make two separate stories to not devalue either of them. To tell you more about it would also spoil the endings of both stories, so you'll have to forgive me and trust I know what I'm doing. It would be a first. Me knowing what I'm doing that is, not being trusted to know that.
I think that's all the story related stuff I have for you but I now have a cool statistic. I recently came across an image which is sadly far too large to be sticking on here, but it told me that the Harry Potter series contained 1,090,739 words. I really hope that JK told someone how many words each book has and it wasn't just that some poor schmuck had to actually count each individual word. There are seven Harry Potter books in all, and when you divide 1,090,739 by 7 you get 155,819 (not a precise number, there's a decimal point too). This means that on average a Harry Potter book is 155,819 words long. This is kinda disproportionate though because the first and second ones aren't too long and they didn't get long until about the fourth one. Anyway, Working Towards The Future currently has 149,532 words.
That's right. In the space of four months I have managed to write a pretty good length novel. 6k words a week doesn't sound like too much, nor does working on something for a few months (especially when you consider there's usually a space of about a year between books in a series) but but taking a step back and seeing it like that shows how much I've actually gone and done.
I had a look the other week, it was around 70k words, then boom almost doubled in a couple of days...thats how awesome you are
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Ha thanks. I used to have different goals for the word count and then I finally gave up giving out estimates. It was originally supposed to last maybe 20k words. Then we were up to 40k, then 50k, then 80k, then 100k...then I just gave up.
1392324 hehe...well I am loving it and loving doing the audio book for it, maybe you could blog about that one and link the two vid's in
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I don't like making more than one update a day (or month it seems 
) so I'll put it up tomorrow. The main reason I didn't was because people who read the story actually aren't following me 
That thing has nearly three times as many favourties as I have followers 
I can do that yeah
1392331 wow... you can link blogs to stories...at the bottom just before save button there is a few tick boxes, one for each story, maybe try that
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Aye, I can do that too. I just have bad luck with the blogging system here. I've had people be surprised that Working Towards The Future even exists even though I made a blog about it, and tagged Im Tired Of All This.
1392339 what....wow.... that is actually kind of funny, is that why you put the link at the end of I am tried of all this
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I'm not sure if I actually did ever put a link in I'm Tired Of All This. It's the main problem people have with this new rule that you can't put sequel announcements in a story and should use a blog post instead. No one reads blog posts. Well, some people do obviously, but the vast majority don't. Sequel announcements within stories themselves are the best way to go about doing it.
1392346 see I found Working first, then used the link in the description to go back to tired
hi poni. good to see you back. <3
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I still read all your blog posts, I just don't comment on each one cos I feel like I have nothing to really say/contribute. 
I never left my friend
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just you commenting makes my day though...
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I'll keep that in mind
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Or, apparently, Blog announcements in stories. That is what got me here after all.
Its true though. I don't tend to follow writers, I tend to follow stories instead. It hadn't even occurred to me, but not being allowed to announce sequels would prevent me from finding out about them. I check out the new stories and updates quite frequently so I tend to catch them sooner or later, but still...
I just hope you kill DT in the end.
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I actually forgot to announce on "I'm Tired Of All This" that Working Towards The Future Exists. I actually even made a blog post lamenting the lack of attention it got given how popular "I'm Tired Of All This" was, so I guess I only had myself to blame for that one 
All that proves is that more people read Author's Notes than read their feed list
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So does a surprisingly large number of people