Status Report · 7:25pm Jul 30th, 2019
My brain right now:
It took significantly longer than I thought it would, but the notes/rough draft of the next chapter, Sleepover, is done.
It’s what I get for invoking Murphy on this one. I went into the Quassmundus chapter believing it was going to be really difficult to write, what with all the information I had to spew out, but that one just flowed onto the page. So, I thought, “Wow, that was so much easier to do than I thought it would, surely the next chapter, where Parody attends a simple sleepover, will be easier than that!”
It wasn’t easier.
It was harder.
Much harder.
It also ended up being far, far longer than I thought it would. Considering that the chapter conceptually started out as nothing more that a “Hey, I flooded my house with poison, can I stay the night?” gag, it really just grew out of control.
For reference, both Catapult Fiasco, and Quassmundus: The Shattered World were 21 pages long in their notes/rough draft form, and ended up being 10,265 and 8,022 words long respectively.
Sleepover is 30 pages long.
Ugh.
Well, now that that’s done, I’ll be getting started on the final draft soon. Usually that goes by faster than the notes/rough draft, but I make no promises.
