{"id":5504,"date":"2011-07-18T11:21:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T17:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=5504"},"modified":"2011-07-18T17:42:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T23:42:30","slug":"desert-stars-3-0-is-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/desert-stars-3-0-is-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Stars 3.0 is finished!"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s right; after almost exactly two months of writing, the third draft of Desert Stars<\/em> is now complete!<\/p>\n

This is the first draft where I feel that things are truly coming together the way they should be, where the story is transforming into something that not only works, but is actually fairly awesome. I’m probably not the best judge, though, so I’ll have to send it out to another round of first readers to get their reactions to it, but I don’t think this will need more than one more draft before it’s ready to go to a copy editor.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, here are the stats:<\/p>\n

ms pages:<\/strong> 505
\nwords:<\/strong> 108,468
\nfile size:<\/strong> 246 KB
\nchapters:<\/strong> 22, prologue & epilogue
\nstart date:<\/strong> 16 May 2011
\nend date:<\/strong> 18 Jul 2011<\/p>\n

And the Wordle:<\/p>\n

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The most influential song in the writing of this draft comes from an mp3 cd of Arabic music that a friend in Jordan gave me while I was studying over there in 2008. The title is \u0641\u0631\u062d\u0629 \u0639\u0645\u0631\u0627\u0646\u0629 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u062f\u0627\u0631, which apparently translates to “The Joy of _____ in Casablanca.” I know absolutely nothing else about it, other than it sounds very Arab. Since Desert Stars<\/em> is essentially about a far-future Arab society, it resonated quite well.<\/p>\n