Chapter Five is done as a first draft.
It came in at 33,145 words. As I said earlier, I suspect it's two chapters. I know there's substantial pre-writing in it, which Mark exorcises easily, so I know that it'll end up much smaller.
I am so happy to be done with this chapter, but so glad I went through the huge effort to write, including reading about 10 feet of books!
The total manuscript now sits at 68,591.
Later today I start writing Chapter 6, which will be a quickie--I promise! It's my "let's get our heads back together segue out of the first two parts and into the part 3, six-chapter series that describes grand strategic realignments needed in economics, diplomacy, defense, networks/tech/security, social-spiritual, and demographic/enviro. I see these going bang bang bang bang bang bang! Why? I've been practicing these on the blog and in the columns and in Esquire since the middle of 2005.
These are the sexy hot mamas standing behind this Grendel!
Okay, that may not be a good historical read on my part, but I commend Bob Zemeckis for updating Beowulf in this fashion. Seriously. Looked fab in Blu-Ray.
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Check out BEOWULF AND GRENDEL, which was released a few months earlier. Mama Grendel is no looker, but Sara Polley's character makes up for it, and you could easily draw some New Core/ Gap analogies from it.
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March 4, 2008 6:52 PM