The Terry Pratchett Prize, Round Two...

[Quatermass]

I'M OVER 80 THOUSAAAAAAND!!!

*crushes scouter in hand*

[michelanCello]

[Jan Van Quirm]

[Quatermass]

Forgive the melodrama, though you've seen it enough times from me anyway.

81K now. I'm on the home stretch now. The end comes, beyond chaos...

Sh**, did I just channel Kefka?

[Jan Van Quirm]

[Quatermass]

Well, if I did channel Kefka, I'd be dressing in garish clothing and making sadistic jokes that make the Joker pale in comparison.

[Quatermass]

Over 87K words, and I only have two (and a bit) chapters to go. I think...

[Quatermass]

I'VE FINISHED! 91K words!!!

[Tonyblack]

Congratulations and good luck!

[Quatermass]

:clap:
Congratulations and good luck!

Thanks, but luck isn't what I need. I'm having the book critiqued by a friend before I send it off.

To celebrate, I'm re-watching almost every episode of Red Dwarf from the beginning, in preparation for the new series when it comes out.

To be fair, the conclusion is a bit hasty and up in the air, but I'm more or less satisfied with the outcome.

[Jan Van Quirm]

Well done - once you've got your editorial comments and review in you'll have plenty of wriggle room on the word count front to get things tidied up for submission

[Quatermass]

:clap: Well done - once you've got your editorial comments and review in you'll have plenty of wriggle room on the word count front to get things tidied up for submission

Yeah. Anyway, I've got a celebration thread where I'm getting crunk. Feel free to join the tesfivities.

[Quatermass]

Okay, I'm getting a copy of my novel printed out so I can have my editor look it over.

[Quatermass]

Okay, copy printed out, handed to my editor/target audience/brutal honest person.

The music here is pretty appropriate...



Alan Silvestri, f[EFF]k yeah!

[Jan Van Quirm]

Trying to keep my spirits up here - had got into a bit of a fallow patch but have just finished a couple of sections off and gone to 200 words shy of 126,000 and a few pages short of finishing the penultimate chapter.

I'm kind of defining the 'alternative Earth' elements now, but I'm back to dithering on whether it's enough of a difference as it's really more fictional messing about with political history and not falling too far outside of the norm? I have invented a new country and stood some tribal culture on it's head, so I guess it's enough but maybe I'll just let the final word count decide. If I get the remaining half chapter done without breaking the 150,000 limit (which seems pretty attainable atm) then I'll probably go for it depending on editorial comment and review