"Learning To Fly" Draft 2 Complete! · 3:21am Mar 10th, 2017
105.4K words, and the second draft of "Learning To Fly" is complete! The next steps are some mix of taking a break from it for a few days, and fixing up the proposed new opening (which will make this even longer), and doing a spellcheck (done!). After those, I need to do a proper edit because this is 2/3 new material and bits of it are probably stupid. Would anyone like to beta-read?
My biggest concern here is that I've got a slew of characters, and readers might well be confused. A few are just brief shout-outs, but the actually significant cast includes a lot of named characters including "Peat", Lexington, Ludo and Misha from other stories. Unfortunately, another problem is that it's not quite logically consistent with the events of "2040: Reconnection", so I may need to revise that.
All in all, though, it was fun to produce this long, silly/serious thing, and an achievement to finish a novel much longer than any other I've done so far!
Woo!
Woot woot!