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12/7/03: Finished Jupiter draft
Word count: 45058 | Since last entry: 1440 | This month: 1932
Finished the first draft of the Jupiter story yesterday morning, huzzah! I read it to Kate and I think it works well. It's also almost 6000 words. I wanted 3000. I think I can trim it by as much as 10% (600 words) but there's no way it's getting much below 5000 in its current form. Oh well. At least it's a good story, and if it's too long for Cosmic Tales of the Far Future I think it's got a good shot at Analog.
The current title is "The True Story of Merganther's Drive", which is a pretty good title but, unfortunately, isn't quite accurate (the facts of Merganther's Drive are never in question within the story, only the facts about this one particular photograph). I think I'm going to fall back to "Interview with the Photographer".
Now I have to decide whether to have it critiqued, or just send it straight to the editor. I'm leaning toward the latter. Ponder ponder ponder.
Tomorrow I will get back to work on the novel.
Posted 12/07/2003 21:26 [e-mail me] [post comment] [permalink]
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