I started on chapter 17 of Elevated last night before bed and am just taking a break now to get outside before the sun goes down. There is an extremely minor spoiler below. So, if you like to avoid such things and haven't read that far yet (no one has as I write this. Even Boy is only on chapter 16.)
Last chance. Gone yet? Or are you still peeking?
Good. Anyway, chapter 17 is supposed to be the elevation of Corvus and Lucretia, the wedding of Lucretia and Gaius, and the wedding reception (the spoiler being that they do go forwards as everyone has been led to expect.) I just got to the end of the wedding and the current draft is already 27 pages. The reception is promising to be nearly as long. So, I'm breaking Draft 5 Chapter 17 into Draft 6 Chapters 17 and 18. There's no way around it other than posting a 60-page chapter.
Chapter 17 should be published on January 17 and chapter 18 on January 24, Even if I've finished the novel by then, I expect to stick to this schedule for two reasons: (1) the two chapters together will probably take 30-35 hours to write and, while I have the time now, I won't in mid-January and part of the point of this writing vacation is to have something to publish every week in 2014 and (2) the last time I split a chapter and posted both parts, roughly 1,200 missed that fact and only read the second chapter posted. It's taken over a month for those numbers to smooth out.
On the other hand, I promise that neither of these chapters is lacking in action, excitement, sexiness, or fun. I think you'll enjoy them very much and, in the end, it means one more chapter of Elevated before it's wrapped up.
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