Forty-nine Shades of Taupe

If you're not in the know, I've been tinkering with writing a little story...

I'm not gonna tell you what, exactly, I'm trying to write--though the title of this post should give you an idea. (...and, no, that's not the title--heck, my working title for it is Untitled #1; and, sorry to disappoint a few, it isn't a BDSM fantasy, either...)

So far, I've written the tale in fragmented pieces; an odd way of going about it--a method that would undoubtedly make many of my former English/Literature teachers cringe. I'm hoping that I'll soon be able to stitch the thing together; but until I fully develop my characters and the plot, it will have to remain a disjointed mess. Fortunately, I do have the main idea, most of the conflict and a general idea of the resolution in mind.

Currently, the total word count of my separate pieces places the work in the novelette category, with 15,027 words; just a few thousand more, and I'll be entering novella country! I'm hoping that I can get the thing knocking on the novel-length door... (well, at least NaNoWriMo novel length--I know others think novel status comes at twice that length!)

...in other-somewhat-related-news...

I stumbled across a hilariously scathing review[1] of Fifty on Goodreads, and am now going through the reviewer's history to get ideas of what she--and others--may think of what I'm writing. While that reviewer is not going to be my target audience, I want to--at the very least--be able to get someone like her to read the entire thing through. (I don't necessarily want to try and please everyone--I know I won't; I'd like to give just enough to make someone want to hold their commitment to reading it--even if it turns out to be the worst piece of literary tripe imaginable.)

=> 1: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/660880613

I'll also be looking into what books worked for that reviewer--and for reviewers that gave similar marks...

...this should be a fun little journey...

Tags: #randomness, #thoughts and stuff

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=> ...in searching for a word count on Fifty, I ran across a neat little gathering of statistics for the trilogy: https://github.com/tothebeat/50shades

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