User blog:Brandon Rhea/The Chosen One: Two Year Anniversary



This is pretty much a shameless plug and a pat on the back for myself, but I thought it’d be nice to mention that today, November 20th, is the two year anniversary of when I started releasing Star Wars: Episode I - The Chosen One. Ironically, this time last year, I was further into the novel than I am now, which is due to the fact that I began the second draft of the novel last January. I’m glad I did too, as it’s much better now than it was then.

I’m not going to ramble on with this, but I wanted to take this opportunity to mention the length of the novel and how it’s essentially progressed from being what was originally called “The Phantom Menace.” Yes, I was going to keep the title, but a change in the novel’s tone caused me to change to “The Chosen One.” That’s obvious now, since the focus of the novel is on Annikin Skywalker and his destiny.

Taking out the cover pages and all of the other non-narrative pages, the novel currently has exactly 200 pages (OK, so it’s actually 199, but who’s counting?), and that’s only with a prologue and 14 chapters. I’m literally only around a third of the way or so through this novel, and I’ve hit 200 pages. Assuming current trends hold, I’m looking at a 600 page novel with something like 350,000 words. I’m really surprised that my dinky little AU novel has turned into this seemingly never-ending epic. And I only say epic in regards to the type of story it is and not the quality of the story, but I can only hope that you’ll find the completed story to be epic as well.

That’s all I really have to say about that. Until next time,

- Brandon Rhea