Corrosive Knights a 10/25/17 update

Though the update is listed as today (ie, the 25th of October), this concerns yesterday.

Specifically, as of yesterday, the 24th of October, I finished the first detailed read through of my latest Corrosive Knights novel.  This will be novel #7 in the series and will conclude the story I began all those years before with Mechanic.

(A quick side note: Though this will conclude the main Corrosive Knights story line, there will be a book #8 which will offer an “epilogue” to the story.  For now I’ll say no more, other than that I have already written the first draft of that epilogue and it should come out very soon after the release of book #7)

Having now read through book #7 from start to end, I have a clearer idea of how the individual parts fit together.  When I wrote this book, I first wrote one major section and the conclusion then went back to write the second major section, a process that took me some time, before marrying the two elements together in one large file.

As I have mentioned before, this is the longest novel I’ve written so far, clocking in at 128,761 words (261 single spaced printed pages) and I suspect when all is said and done the word could will likely increase.

There are bits and pieces that need clarification and/or expansion.  There are less pieces here and there that require compression.

But the big question is: Does the book work?

It may seem like an odd question to make at such a late stage, but trust me, I was sweating for a while.  Because I did one large section of the book, put it away, then worked on the other section before merging the two, it had been a while since I read and revised the first stuff I did.  And when I merged the two together and started the full read-through, I was nervous, worried if everything would fit together and whether the story in full came together or, as I put it above, worked.

I’m happy to say it did.

Boy, did it ever.

Though there’s still much to be done, I’m extremely happy with what I have so far.  This is a book that will, I believe, very satisfactorily conclude the Corrosive Knights saga.  Those who have been following it, I feel, will be happy with this ending which deals with all the various plot threads I’ve opened but, up to this point, haven’t closed.

So today I start the revision process on the computer and, when I’m done with it, I’ll print the whole thing out and give it another read and do the pen revisions before once again doing revisions on the computer.

Hang in there, folks.

They’ll all be out before you know it!

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