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As of this morning, the first draft of the thriller fic is *done.* In Microsoft Word, the page count is 210 pages. I wonder how much bigger it will get when I put it in WordPerfect for printing and add page numbering and reformat it.
It feels strange to have it technically done, but I don't think I fully think of it as done yet. I'll probably be doing some editing and tweaking before I feel it's ready for printing. Usually I tweak chapters right up to posting time, so I'm not sure if I should print it until the final chapter and epilogue go up. I'll probably post those together, like I used to do with my old YGO mysteries.
It ended up 23 chapters and the epilogue. I had idly hoped maybe it would go to 25 chapters total, to be like the original Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books from the thirties and forties. But it seemed to want to be done and started winding down by chapter 23. But 24 total is a nice count too.
I'm so proud of this giant fic. I hope it will look continuous and flowing when I read through it from start to finish. I always seem to forget about some important loose end and then it bugs me to no end.
I found some of my old Diagnosis Murder fics while looking for my one Charles in Charge fic. There's a certain ... naive charm about those old fics (they're ten years old or so), but overall ... wow. They're really quite terrible. The plots aren't bad, though. If I rewrote them today I think I could make them quite awesome.
For my latest Amazon gift certificate courtesy of one of the companies I take surveys for, I ordered the Darkwing Duck graphic novel of the first comic arc (finally!) and Diagnosis Murder season 1. The price of the latter came very far down: $15.99 for 19 episodes and the pilot! I'm thrilled. I've been wanting DM since the DVD sets first started coming out.
I should have thought to check the Charles in Charge DVDs too, because now I discover that season 1 is down to $6.99! I could have added that to the order. As it is, if I want it now I either need to wait for the next round of ordering from Amazon and getting free shipping with $25 or more, or buy it from the Marketplace, where they have a new copy that, including S&H charges, comes to about a dollar more than on Amazon proper without S&H costs. I don't think I have the willpower to wait for the next round of buying on Amazon proper, so I'll probably get it from the Marketplace.
I had the biggest crush on Scott Baio, who was in the first two seasons of Diagnosis Murder. Because of him, I got into Charles in Charge and even tried Happy Days for a bit. I watched Charles in Charge religiously every night/early morning when a local station aired it. Ah, good times.
It feels strange to have it technically done, but I don't think I fully think of it as done yet. I'll probably be doing some editing and tweaking before I feel it's ready for printing. Usually I tweak chapters right up to posting time, so I'm not sure if I should print it until the final chapter and epilogue go up. I'll probably post those together, like I used to do with my old YGO mysteries.
It ended up 23 chapters and the epilogue. I had idly hoped maybe it would go to 25 chapters total, to be like the original Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books from the thirties and forties. But it seemed to want to be done and started winding down by chapter 23. But 24 total is a nice count too.
I'm so proud of this giant fic. I hope it will look continuous and flowing when I read through it from start to finish. I always seem to forget about some important loose end and then it bugs me to no end.
I found some of my old Diagnosis Murder fics while looking for my one Charles in Charge fic. There's a certain ... naive charm about those old fics (they're ten years old or so), but overall ... wow. They're really quite terrible. The plots aren't bad, though. If I rewrote them today I think I could make them quite awesome.
For my latest Amazon gift certificate courtesy of one of the companies I take surveys for, I ordered the Darkwing Duck graphic novel of the first comic arc (finally!) and Diagnosis Murder season 1. The price of the latter came very far down: $15.99 for 19 episodes and the pilot! I'm thrilled. I've been wanting DM since the DVD sets first started coming out.
I should have thought to check the Charles in Charge DVDs too, because now I discover that season 1 is down to $6.99! I could have added that to the order. As it is, if I want it now I either need to wait for the next round of ordering from Amazon and getting free shipping with $25 or more, or buy it from the Marketplace, where they have a new copy that, including S&H charges, comes to about a dollar more than on Amazon proper without S&H costs. I don't think I have the willpower to wait for the next round of buying on Amazon proper, so I'll probably get it from the Marketplace.
I had the biggest crush on Scott Baio, who was in the first two seasons of Diagnosis Murder. Because of him, I got into Charles in Charge and even tried Happy Days for a bit. I watched Charles in Charge religiously every night/early morning when a local station aired it. Ah, good times.
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