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100,000 words

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That's the current word count for Longshot, the erotic SF novel I'm writing. It's still significantly short of where the story probably needs to be: at this point, I'm guessing that the length of the final manuscript will be closer to 150,000 words, making it three times the size of anything I've previously published on SOL.

Progress on the work is slow in part because I'm trying to take particular care with phrasing and structure. I feel that I've truly begun to appreciate the many ways a sentence can be re-built to provide the same information with a very different emphasis, how altering one word here and another there can make a phrase more expressive and compelling.

The other aspect that's slowing things down is the fact that the novel takes place over 300 years, making it much more complex than anything I've written previously.

As always, I'll keep interested readers updated; I'm still aiming to start publishing the first chapters here during the Northern Hemisphere summer.

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