Progress Update

Just hit the 60,000 word mark on The Eye of Odin. All of the players are in now place and I have a good picture of how everything fits together.

This book is a little more ambitious than The Staff of Moses, both in scope (it traverses the world from the Cook Islands, to Virginia, to Germany, to England, before reaching its climax in the mountains of Sweden) and in its narrative structure. Where The Staff of Moses remained rigidly fixed on Oliver, like the tracking camera in an over-the-shoulder video game, the narration in The Eye of Odin occasionally slips to a broader third person perspective, providing what I hope will be a more rich description of certain scenes. Additionally, this story introduces a new character who is important enough to the overarching plot of the series that, occasionally, the narrative will dip into her perspective.

My goal for the first draft is 100,000 words. At the moment I’m worried that I might wrap up closer to 90,000 words, but given the incredible detail of what I have planned for the final two acts of this tale there is also the chance that the story could sprawl on to about 110,000 words.

We’ll have to see. If all goes well I’ll have finished the first draft by June 1st.