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Anyone else writing a book?

I'm having to go back through what I've written and insert new flashback chapters to break up the present day.

By the time I'm done with that, it'll probably be another 6000 words or so, perhaps more, which will push me over the 20% mark, perhaps 22%, and if I'm really lucky, 25%. Whoo hoo!!
 
Sorry to bump this thread but I could use some help. When sending off a manuscript what's the best way to present it? I mean obviously it's a bit large to use staples or paperclips (and those aren't very professional anyway). So what's the best thing to do, just leave it as it is?
 
There are a couple of ways.

One is to leave them loose in the envelope, and as long as all the pages are numbered and maybe have your name at the top, they can always be found.

You could always hole-punch the top left corner and push an umbrella-pin through (you know the pins which can flare out?) or use the green tags which you can find in any stationery store. I used the green tags with my first novel. Never got any complaints, but they didn't publish the book so who knows.
 
Get a manuscript box and put them in there, loose. It's not necessary to bind the pages at all. As BrotherBenny said, just make sure the pages are numbered and have your name on them, so they'll know which MS it came from if the pages get separated.

I am done with Chapter 17 of Part 3. Woot!
 
I'm two thirds done with the first of my flashback chapters. Will finish it tonight, type it up tomorrow and email it to my fiancée/editor, then start on the next flashback chapter.
 
I have several novels in bits and pieces on my hard drive. Fantasy, horror, and SF. But I get distracted by shiny things so very easily . . . :(
 
BrotherBenny said:
I'm two thirds done with the first of my flashback chapters. Will finish it tonight, type it up tomorrow and email it to my fiancée/editor, then start on the next flashback chapter.
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I had to write a flashback chapter the other day, although it was set in 2093 while the character having the flashback was in the 1990s. I just avoid mentioning what year it is except at the beginning of each chapter, to minimize confusion. :lol:

Still, it was a flashback from his point-of-view. Setting up one of the bad guys, even though at the end of the chapter it appeared said bad guy had been killed. I like to be sneaky.
 
~121,000 words for parts 1, 2, and 3. Done up through chapter 20 of part 3. Woot! My current estimate is that the first 3 parts will total about 135,000 words.
 
Fiction. Sci-fi, to be more specific. I'm writing it in twelve parts, with each book consisting of one or more parts. Each part is more or less a self-contained story, although the protagonist is the same through all of them. There is continuity between them, too, so all 12 parts taken together tells a cohesive, larger story.
 
Please don't do a Robert Jordan.

It is my firm belief that if you cannot tell an epic within the confines of a trilogy, then you have far too much superfluous exposition.

There are of course exceptions to this, but they usually have sound reasonings, like the Harry Potter series. Seven books for seven years at school.
 
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What would that be? Keeping the series going long after its "sell-by" date? :lol: No, I have 12 parts planned, each one with a particular purpose, and a specific ending in mind. I may tweak things along the way but there is absolutely a finite end here.

Current breakdown (subject to change):

Book 1: Parts 1-3
Book 2: Parts 4-5
Book 3: Parts 6-8
Book 4: Parts 9-11
Book 5: Part 12

I have plenty of other stuff to work on, too. I need to revise Magnetic Gecko, finish The Journeyman (which has been 90% finished since 2003, argh!), and rewrite and fix Test of Time. There are also a couple sequels to Magnetic Gecko I want to get to someday.

I keep myself pretty busy and I don't like doing the same thing forever.
 
I'm working on the historical novel at the moment, though I'm also working on a basic outline for a sequel. I am also working on my own version of the post-Nemesis TNG stories (though using the same characters in the official post-Nemesis books) and I have a journal which is several pages full of different novel ideas which I will work on once the historical novel is complete.
 
My Star Trek: Pytheas series is in the fanfic forum, and I've only just started on my new version of the TNGR though that is a very distant third at the moment. The novel is staying on my hard-drive for now until it's finished, then I'm going to redraft it into the next century and send it out for publication, I hope.
 
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