Merlin's Story Update

As of approximately five minutes ago, Merlin's Story reached 40,000 words. The average novel is between 75,000 and 100,000 words, or about 300 to 400 pages. Now being longer than 40,000 words, Merlin's Story can no longer be considered a novella under the definition established by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Rather, Merlin's Story can be now be considered a novel.

I have not published any chapters on this blog for over five months now, and will no longer be publishing them for book publishing reasons.

I have written approximately 10,000 words in the last two weeks. Working at a steady pace, somewhat slower than this last week, Merlin's Story can be expected to be finished by the end of 2010 if things remain the way they are, by the end of May if things go well, and by the end of 2012 at the absolute very worst.

Sitting pretty at 186 pages currently, Merlin's Story is becoming considerably longer than I had anticipated, which was supposed to be a stand alone novel, spanning all of Merlin's life. In that, I have failed miserably, adding more and more to the story until finally one book would not do justice to Merlin. Thus Merlin's Story will not be one book, but rather two for certain, and more than possibly three books to form the Merlin's Story trilogy.

Keep checking up here for more info regarding Merlin's Story, due to be finished within the next year.