Our mission to complete a sci-fi novel in a little over a year to prove a point continues.. but something has happened to our ability to count.
If we were to follow the last blog in terms of day number, then we should now be on Day 18. Yet, we note today that the countdown suggests otherwise. Are we really only 366 days to our completion deadline?
The answer is yes - I’ve checked.
Our first blog was on 21st February. Our completion date is thus 21st March 2013. So really, this is day 27 and all of a sudden we have lost 9 days. I’m speculating that it could have something to do with the space-time continuum because the idea that we simply can’t count is just too horrible. Anyway, at least we now know where we are - exactly one Year and 1 Day to go before the end of our project.
At the moment, we have 13 pages completed. We haven’t yet separated the text out into chapters, but we assume that this is very nearly 1 chapter. We calculate that if we persevere at this rate, we’ll have156 pages by the end of the project. Or, in other words, we’ll have half a book and a failed mission. We need to up our game.
We need a more rigorous writing schedule and have agreed to complete at least one chapter per month. That way, by December, we should be almost there and can dedicate serious time to editing and converting our 'masterpiece' into the correct format – we don’t understand this bit yet but figure there is time to learn. We should also think about our artwork at some point… for now though, maybe we should just focus on actual words.
Convention update – the nice people at the Olympus Science Fiction Convention have let us in. I will be attending on 6th April. My partner is overwhelmed with excitement at accompanying me.
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