A man has written 200,000 books…with a little help from computers.
No word monkeys required. What a concept: Make publishing profitable by eliminating the writers, the editors, the layout team, the proofreaders, and anyone else who knows anything about making books.
I’ve glimpsed the future…and it sucks.
The numbers say it all:
Three more scenes written in Mere Mortals, totaling 3,800 words for the day.
Four scenes to go.
Once more unto the breach tomorrow.
I’m happy to report that I’ve had an unusually productive day of writing today: 3,000 words, comprising four scenes of Mere Mortals, book two of my Star Trek Destiny trilogy.
Just seven scenes to go, which I hope to have finished by New Year’s Day. Then I can scrawl out the acknowledgments, paste in the About the Author copy, treat myself to special ice cream, and start my spell-check and polishing draft.
With a little bit of luck, I’ll have the draft ms. out to my ever-helpful beta readers by Friday, January 4, and a revised version to my editors by Wednesday, January 9.
Then I can begin the final part of this franchise-shaking saga: Lost Souls, coming to an editor near me sometime in April and to bookstores everywhere in December 2008.
Yee. Haw.