“A Trial for a Dragon” Alpha Reader Call! · 6:51pm Mar 25th, 2020
Hello readers! As society breaks down outside your door, I’ve got good news! The kind that’s good enough for you to put down that bat you’ve been hammering nails int, and maybe even make you reconsider putting on those post-apocalyptic leathers for another day or so.
A Trial for a Dragon, my entry for Parliament of Wizards (more at the link if you’re lost) is now ready for Alpha!
Yes, it took a few days, even once the first draft was done. See, the submission limit where wordcount is concerned for Parliament is 17,500 words, and the first draft of Trial clocked in at around 19,960 or something like that. So clearly I had to do some cutting and trimming. A lot of cutting a trimming. Sands, I even rewrote the entire introduction, cutting out some elements and getting it down to about 1,500 words less.
If you’re a Patreon Supporter, by the way, the original, expanded introduction is a supporter reward, so it’s not gone forever.
What’s Trial about, you may ask? Well, I’ll leave that for the jump. First I want to make two details clear:
- It’s time for Alpha Readers to have a crack at it.
- Work on the next episode of Fireteam Freelance has begun.
So much progress!
And what a lovely coincidence, I just finished rereading "A Game of Stakes" last night. I suppose I can put off finishing my Bane-style visual upgrade for my mask then, for now.