So the rough draft for the full manuscript of Ithaqa is officially done as of a few hours ago! A big part of my steemit absence has been due to two weeks of feverish writing! On April 3rd, I'm leaving for Mexico so I can deliver a sailboat to some guy up in LA, and I knew I wanted to have the full draft finished before I left.
We're looking at about 200 pages of art, and I can't even tell you how many pages of writing, but it's a lot. Anyway, I want to spend a few weeks away from the script so I can allow my brain to reach some semblance of objectivity, and then I dive in for the final rewrites an edits.
Now the degree of "rough" is kinda on a spectrum because obviously what has been illustrated is final, chapter 3 is final, and chapters 4/5 have been through 2 rounds of edits....Still...a whole lot could be up in the air given the last 2 chapters haven't even been read by my editor yet. One thing I can already tell I'm going to have to change is that I kinda have multiple endings, Lord of The Rings style. It's kinda inevitable when you have several factions of characters who you're following, but it still feels a liiiiiitle too long to me. So who knows, maybe I'm going to cut out some closure.
I also wrote over a chapters worth of flash forwards that I plan to insert throughout the main story you've all been following here, so prepare for some noir-y investigating + character backstory.
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