I'm rerunning this post from a month ago when I posted it over on
The Spectacle.
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First some basic stats on
THE EMERALD TABLET:
Time to write first draft - 3 months
Length of first draft - 113K
Length of published novel - 66K
Time from first word written until publication - 4 years
First line of first draft -
The night was bright, lit by a waxing gibbous moon.(Okay, it pains me to put that down. And it came from a prologue, no less, long since deleted from the story.)
First line of published...
Published on January 25, 2010 07:46