Progress Report 43

I now have 63 chapters drafted.  I know, most novels don't have so many chapters.  Well, I am not writing most novels, I am writing this one.  It needs a lot of partitioning.  With four main story lines and uncounted sub-plots, interspersed with a hundred years of historical background and fun speculative fiction "facts," it is nice to have a lot of short chapters instead of a few big ones.  I am trying to present the story in something of "short attention span friendly" way.  After a few minutes of reading about one character, the point of view jumps to another character.  This way, the television programmed brain cycles of the modern media viewer feel like content is flowing in at an acceptable rate.  Not to berate or belittle my potential readers.  This is not something I am forced to do because my audience has limited abilities, but rather something I am choosing to do in order to tell the story in the context of a society drenched in competing media technologies.  Okay, I am starting to sound pretentious and artsy.  I will stop.  My book has a lot of chapters.  That's all I wanted to say.  Some of the chapters contain nudity, strong language, divergent cultural ideas, and plenty of roller derby. (Now that is promotional copy!)

The word count is up around 154k.

I know you are thinking something along the lines of "Why is this jackass rambling on and on about some book that isn't even available yet and very few people will actually read.  I mean the fool isn't even going to TRY to get it published.  The moron is just going to upload it to the internet and hope some influential basement bloggers will tell their other basement bound readers to read the novel.  All this based on the merit that Mr. A. Total Jackass Carpenter thinks the book is worth reading.  What are you a hippie?  A caveman?  A dirty commie?  I could be looking at porn right now!  Stop wasting my time!"

All I can say is, you've got some good points.  This is all a sort of experiment.  Please bear with me and I will try not to waste too much of your precious titty staring time.