Well before I get into that, I'm going to quickly also say that comment moderation has been disabled. But, if comments get out of hand I'll change that again. This means simply post a comment and it will show up - I don't have to approve them anymore.
Anyway, back to Kin. As it stands with a few pages down in Chapter 8, Kin is composed of the following:
70kb Filesize
37 full-length legal document-size pages
7 finished chapters
16,570 words
76,000 characters (minus spaces)
92,200 characters
595 paragraphs
1,500 lines
This is in comparison with the failed first attempt at Malachani:
152kb Filesize
65 full-length legal document-size pages
12 finished chapters
35,320 words
159,660 characters (minus spaces)
194,920 characters
1,222 paragraphs
2,955 lines
I originally started Kin with the thought in mind it'd be a short story. In all honesty, I was maybe about 5-7 chapters from finishing the first book with Malachani, which I considered was long enough to be a novel. There's so much more to write about with Kin, in fact there's another "main" character who hasn't even surfaced yet. I know Chapter 8 has been very far delayed and I really apologize about it.
Recently I've also been dropping some small lines of dialog and scenes from some ideas I had for the Malachani revival, which was started quite some time ago and dropped. I was very dissatisfied with how Malachani (the original) turned out, and didn't just get stuck in writer's block, but the story honestly stopped. I had no way out of it to go where I wanted to go.
I'm going to say this now, with the inspiration I have, I'm probably going to alternate between Malachani (the revival) and Kin. Honestly, I've kind of burnt myself out of Kin - it's not a permanent damage, but I spent so much time into it without tearing myself from it. That's why there's really been a delay with 8. But it's coming. I know I've said that multiple times but it is.
Taking a look at those stats, it's pretty scary to me how almost exactly halved they are between Kin and Malachani (the original). The chapters of Malachani (the original) were longer than those of Kin but there's nothing wrong with shorter chapters. But that also makes me feel good as well, stacking up those stats as my two largest projects (so far), and I've been writing very very lightly since I was in middle school. Together that's a little more than 100 full length legal document-sized pages of original content and literature. Sure, Malachani (the original) was that - original and written almost solely by myself, but Kin was the combined effort of myself and two friends.
The difference between the two being that Malachani (the original) [and, the ported characters of the revival] had character inspirations from friends. I asked them to give me a profile and they provided one, which I ran and made the original characters from; and that's where the buck ended - at the characters. Kin, as a whole, the story was already written and fleshed out by the three of us behind it - though I'm taking all of our ideas and combining them and throwing a few new concepts in here and there.
Anyway, back to Chapter Eight!
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