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I tend to plot out stories before I write them, either a rough outline or a brief view of what happens in each chapter just so I can keep track of what is going on.
Anyway, I've finally got round to doing the part by part version for Lives are for Living. I'd estimated 15 parts of about 1750 words each based on my rough outline. Yeah, that's so not happening.
I know I normally underestimate how long a fic is going to be (Anybody who has beta'd for me knows just how much fic tends to be over my initial estimate. My last big bang was about 8000 words more than I'd thought it would be.)
Any how, I've just divided the plot into parts, as the parts alternate in their POV between Andy and Tom (Odd numbered chapters are Andy, even ones Tom.) and it now runs to about 35 parts of about 1750 each. Or about 61250 words. So about 35000 words over my initial rough estimate.
I'm just looking at the list and going wow at the moment, because it will be the longest anything that I've written, and even if I post twice a week it's going to be nearly Christmas before I'm finished.
It's just as well it seems to be writing itself. Next part will be up tomorrow as it's mostly written right now, I just need to get it to a point were I can finished Andy's POV and switch to Tom's for part 4 (which should be posted on Wednesday.)
Anyway, I've finally got round to doing the part by part version for Lives are for Living. I'd estimated 15 parts of about 1750 words each based on my rough outline. Yeah, that's so not happening.
I know I normally underestimate how long a fic is going to be (Anybody who has beta'd for me knows just how much fic tends to be over my initial estimate. My last big bang was about 8000 words more than I'd thought it would be.)
Any how, I've just divided the plot into parts, as the parts alternate in their POV between Andy and Tom (Odd numbered chapters are Andy, even ones Tom.) and it now runs to about 35 parts of about 1750 each. Or about 61250 words. So about 35000 words over my initial rough estimate.
I'm just looking at the list and going wow at the moment, because it will be the longest anything that I've written, and even if I post twice a week it's going to be nearly Christmas before I'm finished.
It's just as well it seems to be writing itself. Next part will be up tomorrow as it's mostly written right now, I just need to get it to a point were I can finished Andy's POV and switch to Tom's for part 4 (which should be posted on Wednesday.)