Act II Completed! (Update)

 

As Act II has now reached its conclusion, I think it’s due time I post another update/news post here on this blog. With two out of four acts complete, the draft of HDM is now well underway, and I must say things are shaping up to be quite a bit larger than I first imagined. My goal when I began this draft was to write a story 60,000 words long, which roughly equates to just around 200 pages, making it quite the short book. Now though, the word count has reached just under 44,000 and we’re only halfway done, meaning the book could end up being a true full-length novel, something I never thought I’d be able to do had I told myself this a year ago. This growth in word count is mostly thanks to the unforeseen size of chapters 7-11, with 10 and 11 in particular being 20 pages each in my manuscript, far surpassing the goal I set for myself which is 10 to 12. I’ve found when what you write is a piece of yourself, words just flow out naturally.

Speaking of which, I truly feel this book is a piece of myself, more so than any other creative project I’ve worked on before, which is why I’m so eager to complete it and present it to the world as a finished work. Until then, this website will be here for anyone to enjoy the story in its first draft. I hope to finish the draft by early April, and will from there go into a process of revisions for the month or so following. I’d like to have the book self-published by June, though if that process takes longer than expected, it could be pushed slightly further. Anyway, I’ll see you all whenever I post next. Thanks for reading.