Thursday, 2 July 2009

So, I have this great bunch of words I slaved on

So, there's this great bunch of words that I have slaved on. I planned it to be around thirteen thousand, but it's close to fifteen thousand. There isn't such a big difference, but with editing it'll come close to twenty thousand. Am I satisfied? Maybe. Word count isn't everything, and yet it is. If a story is too short, people might not be interested; if a story is too long, people will definetly not be interested.
I started writing the story out in Google Docs, and let me tell you: it's a pain to write in. Do not ever, ever consider writing something in it unless you're constantly switching computers or working on something with a group of people.
Right now, I'm proofreading in Microsoft Word 2007 (yes, it's the best document software I can find thanks to good spellchecking) and I'm sending what I've proofread to my girlfriend so that she can get a sneak peak at that. (I hope that by this statement I don't get swarmed with "Will you be my boyfriend?" requests, I value my life thankyouverymuch).
What am I going to do with the story, once I'm fully done with it and it's all finalised and ready? Well, I would like to design a nice website for it and release it on it.
Isn't it good enough to be printed, bound, read and placed on a shelf? It probably is, I'm not going to blow my own trumpet here, but I don't want to mess around with professional printing and shit like that. Publishers probably won't accept it: I'm a nobody who wrote a story set in the future about the gods of the past which is good, but not good enough to justify their effort on it, and that much I understand.
If people like it enough and actually want it printed, I will introduce them to the wonders of digital printing, for a fee that covers the printing and the trouble I'll go through to get it sorted.
When is the story due? When I'm done proof and reproof reading; and when the website is ready.

2 comments:

Chirpilittle said...

Will you be my boyfriend?

oh... wait... dang... you already are. Grr. :P

I loved the story^^ Can't wait to read the rest!

Can I help with the website part?

Jay said...

Hullo, friend of Chris Tomalty. I'd be very available to help you manage any web site you were pondering.

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