I'm nearing the end of Gob Squad. Or at least, I'm nearing the end of the first draft. And it's a weird story, too, since I wrote half, left it sit for a while (over a year), came back, polished the first half, and then wrote the second half. So it needs a pretty thorough rewrite for continuity.
The whole thing started out as a dark, gritty fantasy novel. But once I started writing it, somehow these funny bits kept popping into my mind, which I worked into the story. And lo and behold, it became a comedic work. And then since that wasn't enough, it started to turn itself into kind of a satire of high fantasy (which I thoroughly enjoy).
So now it's gone from dark fantasy to humorous (I hope) satire. I'm not sure it works - satire is hard to write - but I'm nearing the end of it. That's the point at which I put it away for a few weeks, outline some other stuff, and then pull it back out and rewrite it.
I guesstimate that I have about 5k words left, maybe less, before it's all finished and done. But we'll see. Perhaps there's more adventure left there than I think!
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