Nine Characters + One Butterfly = Chaos Theory
Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on April 15, 2014 [Comments from 2021 are in italics, enclosed in square brackets, like this one.] My first completed novel, If a Butterfly, was EXTREMELY long. The first draft was well over 300,000 words, about 1,300 double-spaced 8.5 x 11 pages; but — in its defense — …
Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on September 15, 2012 [Comments from 2021 are in italics, enclosed in square brackets, like this one.] When I finished the second draft of If a Butterfly, about eleven weeks ago [early-summer 2012], it was 280,762 words and 1,093 double-spaced pages. After I returned from the 2012 WLT …
If a Butterfly was largely finished by 2016, but I didn’t publish it then because I felt (for very good reasons) I had to complete and publish another book first. That other book, Aggravated, was finished this month, and was published on December 11, 2020. Now it’s Butterfly’s turn. Years ago, between 2012 and 2014, …