Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog
Howdy, folks. I’m taking a short break from writing my version of the “Great American Novel” and thought I’d check in with ya.
I’ve been working on my latest book (writing and researching) for about four hundred years now. Well, maybe I exaggerate a mite, but you get my drift. It’s what some might call an epic. Me, I just call it a story. A long story, but still only a story. It’s about three generations of one family, blah, blah, blah.
Anyway, here’s the deal. Something happened this go-round that has never happened to me before. It was kinda weird. And if I may, I’d like to tell you about it.
So, I get up to around 163,000 words and I’m going strong. I got the words, man! They’re just flowin’. I mean, no problem—no problem whatsoever. No down days, unless you count the days I took off to…
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Wow, Andrew! That is beyond EPIC – 163K?! Good luck with it! Eventually you will complete it. Enjoy the flow of the words and the ethereal feeling they create in you! Wow again! 😆
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You’re a master storyteller, Andrew. A little over the top on word count perhaps, but who wouldn’t be glued to your words?
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“A little over the top on word count …” You ain’t seen nothing yet. You do know that “Gone with the Wind” had 425,000 words and “East of Eden” hit the streets with 225,000 words?
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I did not know that!!
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163K words SO FAR? This is a trilogy, right?
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Yes … sorta … but all in one book.
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