Last night at nearly midnight we launched this blog, and
announced to the world our intention to write an entire novel in just 90 days.
I would like to take a moment to make it clear how we will
measure our success or failure in this challenge.
Firstly, we think that a novel is at least 80,000 words. At
around 250 words per page on a kindle that's 320 pages. We could probably get away
with a little less, but if we're going to follow through on this challenge we
want to do it properly.
80,000 words in 90 days is roughly 889 words per day on
average. We expect some days to be lost in planning, or due to other life
commitments (including this blog!) so in reality we'll be looking at closer to
the thousand most days.
As well as merely having 80,000+ words we need to write a coherent
story. If it doesn't hang together and compel the reader onwards right to the
end, it isn't much of a novel. This isn't up to us to decide. This element is
where our Amazon reviews will come in. We will put the book up on Amazon's
Kindle Store at the end of this challenge (finished or not, with a clear
indication on finished word count) and let the world decide if our efforts were
in vain. We hope you will take part in critiquing our work at this point.
Finally, it has to be original. Dan and I both want to add
something new to the literary universe and we hope to bring a unique story to
the table that will keep you in suspense to the very end. Again, our readers
will be our judges on this - and we welcome honest feedback.
I will post again at the end of today with a quick
tickertape update on our word count with which you can approximate our progress
(bearing in mind that we may lose some words during the final edit!). I will also put this number on our twitter feed.
Thank you for following our journey (and do let us know in
the comments if you are an aspiring author, we'd love to know what others are
up to - feel free to link to your own author's blog/website in comments).
Sean
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