The Price of Friendship: first novel

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Saturday, April 6, 2013

Almost done with the vampire story

I'm through 58K words of my "Teenage Vampire Love Story from a Boys Point of Veiw". Total word count is almost 71K, though I will probably cut a scene that doesn't move the story forward at all. I think a total word count of 70K is good enough for a first attempt at paper publishers.

Chad and Amy have much larger cameos now. I hope their appearances aren't too confusing to those who haven't read, listened to my other stories.

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About the story.

The Novel

The Price of Friendship started in the May of 2009 with the prompt week #54 from Jeff Hite's prompt based creative writing podcast. The prompt was "A pound of flesh" from the Merchant of Venice.

I had been writing for about five months, hadn't attended any writers meetup groups, hadn't taken any classes and had very little feedback from anybody and jumped in like I normally did. I just started writing. Some call it organic, some call it rambling, but where I started and where I ended were two completely different places.

I expected to go about four weeks, using the prompts from Jeff and finishing with about 6000 words and Amy rolling her eyes at Chad, gasping, "Boys!" and walking away, shaking her head.

I continued writing an episode, on and off for the rest of the year and had gotten to about six or seven episodes by the end of the year. Justin, the space turtle, Lowmaster told me I should do an episode a month for the "Podcasting for Compassion" podcast to support Compassion International in 2010. I started by rewriting my first few episodes and added a few more, one month at a time.

When I did Nanowrimo that year and hit 50,000 words in 16 days, I realized that I had been wasting time and dragging my feet on the Price of Friendship, which stood at about 20k words at that time. That if I concentrated in a Nanowrimo way, I could knock The Price out in January.

Long story longer, it took me a few months, and each time I learned something new in a class or from an editor, I went back and rewrote the whole thing again.

In the end, I realized I will never be done editing or rewriting, and that I should just get this one out and move on to the next. So, for the next six weeks, I will be finishing recording and editing and putting this book on Podiobooks.com (A dream I had since first listening to Nathan Lowell's Share books, in September of 2008)

If you like it, leave me some feedback. If you don't, that's ok, and if it is constructive, leave that feedback, too.

Thanks,

Philip 'Norvaljoe' Carroll

January 2012

The Price of Friendship

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Saturday, April 6, 2013

Almost done with the vampire story

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