Night Warrior finale metrics, THE END!!!!

[pjthompson]

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I've written a frickin' epic—but IT'S DONE!!!!!

Final nasty page count: 746 SMF
Final nasty wordcount: 186,500 SMF (178,500 in Word)

I think that should count as both novel #4 and novel #5, don't you?

Unmarketable as sin, but for the moment, I don't care.

Comments

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

Eee, yayayayay! Yes, definitely count it as two!

[pjthompson]

Thanks! It definitely does.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! That's a deadly weapon right there!

(Congrats on finishing.)

[pjthompson]

Thanks--and holy crap is right. If I dropped that sucker on somebody's head they'd never move again.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[pjthompson]

Thanks!

[deborahkalin.livejournal.com]

CONGRATS!

[pjthompson]

Thank you!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Good for you! (Mine tend to run about that length...)

[pjthompson]

Thanks--and wow. I feel like I've given myself a hernia. :-)

[jasperh.livejournal.com]

Awesome and so glad and sad you have reached the end. Now when can I read the chapter? Now would be great.

[pjthompson]

Thankee! This weekend or early next week I'll post chapter 40 and the epilogues together. But I don't want to look at it for a day or so. And thanks for the crits and all the ones that came before!

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Hey, CONGRATS!!!! That's awesome!!!

[pjthompson]

Thanks!

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Woot!

So when ya starting book 3? ;-)

[pjthompson]

Woohoo! Woot!

Indeed! Thanks.

So when ya starting book 3? ;-)

Dude, bite your tongue. Stories for awhile until I just can't stand not writing a novel anymore. :-)

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Dude, bite your tongue. Stories for awhile until I just can't stand not writing a novel anymore. :-)

Okay, I think I can live with that. :-)

[pjthompson]

:-)

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Well done! :)

[pjthompson]

Thank you!

[jandersoncoats.livejournal.com]

Unmarketable as sin, but for the moment, I don't care

Yeah, I'm in this boat, too.

Congrats on finishing! Must feel good to have it DONE.

[pjthompson]

It's a sad boat...but it does feel amazingly good to have that stubborn monster finished. Thanks!

[merebrillante.livejournal.com]

It's done! Hooray! And never say anything is unmarketable. There's a market for everything, it's just a question of finding it.

[pjthompson]

Thanks!

And never say anything is unmarketable. There's a market for everything, it's just a question of finding it.

Even a 746 page Arthurian-vampire-erotic-horror-romance? No, don't answer that... :-)

[merebrillante.livejournal.com]

Minus any one of those elements, it would be a tough sell. But there are enough different spices and herbs in that recipe to make it stand out from the crowd.

[pjthompson]

Vous êtes charmante, Madame.

[merebrillante.livejournal.com]

Pourquoi tu me vouvoies, ma petite?

[pjthompson]

Well, I didn't want to be presumptuous and use the tu form.

[merebrillante.livejournal.com]

Toi? Présompteueuse? Ce n'est pas possible!

[pjthompson]

Il est trés possible.

[merebrillante.livejournal.com]

Send. The goddamn. Book.

Sheesh.

[pjthompson]

Don't hurt me!

[merebrillante.livejournal.com]

You shoulda talked to my kitties. They woulda told you today was the wrong day to mess with me.

[pjthompson]

Tu est belle, brilliant, et trés trés trés puissante.

[merebrillante.livejournal.com]

Wha'd you just call me?

Never mind.

[pjthompson]

Along those same lines, when I was a senior in high school, the junior class gave themselves the class name of "Les Puissants." You can imagine the hilarity that ensued.

(Of course, our class name was "Watani," Swahili for... geez, I can't even remember what for.)

[merebrillante.livejournal.com]

Et aussi, rends-moi ton roman, s'il te plait.

[pjthompson]

Okay, I think my long ago and faraway high school French really has deserted me this time because for a minute there I thought you were asking me to send you my large and ugly novel.

[merebrillante.livejournal.com]

Tu as droit, petite drôle!

[pjthompson]

Okay, here's my sad story: I have place holders in some of the early chapters, i.e., "Add a few chapters showing Caius's childhood friendship with Aine," rather than real content. That's because I first cut a storyline then put it back in. And I haven't written those chapters, and I don't wanna right now. So...

[merebrillante.livejournal.com]

So are you gonna send me the book or not? It was good enough to put up on OWW, wasn't it?

[jasperh.livejournal.com]

Pam, I have read them and I will crit them when I am over heatstroke. It makes me grumpy.

And I do have cause to be grumpy anyway, don't I???? I take it you are going to include the omissions in the sequel because none of the epilogues was a conclusion.

On the flip side I can now look forward to the next book in the series. When are you going to start it?

[pjthompson]

Eh bien, cherie, I did tell you it was part of a trilogy. Which I won't be finishing anytime soon. I'll gladly answer any questions, if you're so inclined. But I'll wait on that until after you're over heatstroke. >;-)