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.
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4 comments:
where can i read "merlin's story" ? in which website? thank you
This very website is Merlin's Story. I recommend that you start at the oldest post and read up to the newest, as the posts go in order to form the story.
What has been posted online is not the most recent, and much has been changed in the actual manuscript of Merlin's Story. What's online is mainly a teaser to get readers interested in my story and possibly attract publishers.
I hope you enjoy Merlin's Story and thanks for visiting the site!
hello...wow u are awesome!!!can i know merlin will ended up with which girl one day?
Thanks for the comment bella, it's lovely to hear things like that. As for knowing whether Merlin will end up with Nimue (I'm guessing that's who you're referring to; if not, please correct me), I don't want to reveal too much, but there are some things I think wouldn't be revealing too much.
One of the first things I noticed in my research about Merlin was Merlin's ultimate downfall from a lust for a woman named Nimue. In the legend, Nimue did not love Merlin back, but she lived with him for several years to learn the secrets of his magic, and then trapped him in a magically sealed cave with his own spells to live out the rest of his days. Because of this, Arthur lost his greatest adviser, and many of the events that led to the fall of Camelot were started in a domino effect by Merlin being trapped by Nimue.
Now I personally do not like that ending for Merlin, so I have cast Nimue has a good character, and tried to mimic the character of Nimue in the 1998 film 'Merlin'. Nimue will play a larger role as the story progresses, but as to just what, I'm not quite ready to spoil that yet. However, here's a hint: Merlin will die a threefold death, which is when someone dies simultaneously from three causes. One of the three causes will be drowning by Nimue. I'll leave you now to consider just what I mean by that.
Thanks for the great question, and I hope you continue to enjoy and read Merlin's Story!
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