OH THANK YOU GODS

[bedlamsbard]

"In a Dark Wood", the fifth part of "In Constellated Wars" is complete at (wait for it) 10,108 words. Yes, I want to shoot Caspian too. (Almost twice as long as Peter's story!)

Now the part all you guys were waiting for: first draft, final wordcount of the entire story, is...

38,832

OH MY GOD I THINK I JUST WROTE MORE FOR NARNIA THAN I HAVE FOR ANY OTHER FANDOM SINCE CSI:NY. Which, let me add, was three years ago, so we're talking many other fandoms here.

(And I was worried this was going to be a 20K story. Ha. HA.)

At least a couple thousand words are getting cut in edits, thank the gods.

Comments

[swift-tales.livejournal.com]

Hoorah! It sounds like fun! I can't wait to read it ^^

And wow, that is a lot of words... how did Caspian's get so long? Was it his suspicious/Paranoid attitude?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

That, and the fact that as the last person written, Caspian had already been sidelined into appearing in situations with other characters who otherwise didn't see each other. (He starts out with Edmund, then he's with Edmund, Susan, and Lucy, then he goes to see some Narnians, then he's with everyone, then Edmund again, then Edmund and Peter, then Susan and Lucy, then Edmund again, and then with everyone again.) Whereas, on the other hand, Peter, who was the first POV written, is by himself, with Susan, with everyone, with Edmund and Caspian, with some Narnians, by himself again, with everyone, then by himself and ends up with Lucy. And the bastard's not as introspective as the others.

[swift-tales.livejournal.com]

Well, that does seem to make sense... and I'm still really looking forward to reading it.
Peter being not so introspective might be because he's more of a "take action" kinda guy, right?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Yeah -- he doesn't think about things the way the others do, and he has his entire memory, unlike Lucy, so he's not grasping at straws. And he's so angry throughout the entire story that he isn't thinking much beyond, I am going to beat his head in with a shovel towards Caspian. Everyone else is trying to do damage control.

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

You wanted to shoot Caspian *before* you did his pov. *laughs*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I did not know he'd be so damn wordy.

[scarletts-awry.livejournal.com]

I am very happy for you... \o/

I am also terribly envious of your word count.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Why couldn't I have written like this for my original novel six months ago? It would have saved me a lot of stress. *sulks*

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

You know that's about the same length as a regular ole Narnia novel?

And you wrote it relatively quickly... it must be crazy, living in your head!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

WHAT? *beats head into wall* And it's just the same scene retold five different times...

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I reckon so. Neil Gaiman's Coraline is 1600 words, and yer average Narnia book takes me twice as long to read as Coraline... so yep, around 30 000 words, says my calculations.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*headdesk*