The Book

Fae and I are writing a book. Honestly. That word count to the left of this post isn't just random. We're finally doing what we've wanted to do since we were 13. The Book has almost four full chapters, and as of today over 30,000 words.

According to the omniscient Wikipedia:

Epic length novel 100,000 to 120,000 words
Full length novel 70,000 to 100,000 words
Mid-length novel 50,000 to 70,000 words
Novella 25,000 to 50,000 words
Novelette 15,000 to 25,000 words
Short story 1,000 to 15,000 words
Flash fiction 1,000 words or less
Micro fiction 100 words

So, we officially have a decent length novella. Knowing us, it will reach "Epic Length Novel" eventually, simply because we both enjoy the word epic and have definitely called our plots that before.

What is this book, you ask? Well, it's the culmination of mine and Fae's relationship, over 9 years of role playing. Not in the sexy way (much...) but in the RP way. As in, we have characters and we play scenes between them. It started out as a group thing, when we were 12 and 13. We used to RP Tamora Pierce books in Yahoo Clubs. That was where we met. Since then, it moved to just being the two of us, on Yahoo Messenger, and to a cast of over 500 characters who have nothing to do with Tamora Pierce.

Pretty much, it's a nerdy fantasy book. But I like to call it post modern fantasy, because we're not about the knights and dragons and names with apostrophes. Instead, our writing is very character based. And honestly, these characters could exist in any setting, it's just that fantasy is what we're familiar with and it's fun to give them magical powers. But it's not a typical fantasy at all. The fun thing is that we know these characters so well. I mean, for most of them we have their lineage planned out 6 generations back and 3 generations forward.

I have no idea what we'll do with it when we finish. Obviously it would be great to get it published, etc... but I think right now we're just doing it for us. Plus, we have a ways to go. We have at least two or three books planned out after this one.

Yup, we're nerds.

Prologue

I have always had at least three books in me. There are three things I have always known I would be able to write a novel about. The first in my adaptation of the Metamorphoses. The second is the story of Cleopatra and Antony's daughter, Cleopatra Selene.

The third is the story that Fae and I have been writing since we were 13 years old. A story with a cast of over 500, at least half of which we know almost personally. Now we're going to write it. And putting it down here makes it more real. I don't know how we're going to do it, exactly, living in two different countries and with completely different schedules (neither of which include that much spare time). But I'm really excited to start it.

I don't know what happens when I finally write these three books. But I've always know I would. Maybe they'll be good, maybe they'll be bad. But they need to be written.

And I'm so happy to be writing this one with my Faebala.