The first story I wrote in the Linkage series was The Young Girl's Story, all 4464 words of it .The second story, The Chevalier's Tale, had expanded to 6159 words. The third story, The Waiter's Tale, just completed, has 28 chapters and somewhere near 80,000 words.
The first two stories were written over ten years ago and it has taken that number of years for the third story to be brought forth. The longer a gestation period in mammals the larger the offspring ( Canines 63-65 days; Humans 280 days; Elephants 620-680 days) and The Waiter's Tale is a one ginormous Heffelump of a book. So why all this blether?
Well currently the 28 chapters are being edited by Oldrotorhead, editor supreme, and hopefully I will start posting the story within a week. Even when on holiday, a road trip taking in The Rockies, ORH continues to edit and polish the work of those writers fortunate to have him as editor. In fact he is editor to some of the most popular writers on Sol, the crème de la crème, and I am privileged to be in the same jug as the cream of Sol authors, even though I am more of a clot.