Secrets Hidden In The Pages
Nothing new on the word count front, but there is something that I forgot to mention yesterday evening.
Yesterday in getting to the current word count, I went through some pretty important words in the life of my story. Word 1776 ended up being "the" (how exciting is that!) but the more important words in my novel actually have a cryptic meaning - almost entirely by accident.
Words 1812-1815 (the years of the War of 1812 when my alternate history takes it shape) are "Liam did not turn."
The fact that I'm writing a novel about trying to find a government mole in an underground organization makes those words just too fitting! It's too perfect in an Illuminati or Bible Code sort of way! Hopefully that doesn't give away too much but I pretty much say from page one that Liam isn't the spy.
I seriously did not plan it beyond knowing that the all important words 1812-1815 were coming up shortly. And anyone who knows me knows that I'm big into numeric significance so I find this amazing!
In other news, "I am the walrus." :)
Seriously, if the novel ever gets published (and that's a big if of course) and you hear rumors about "hidden messages" in "Stars, Bars, and the Crown," they're all true. But I'm not intentionally putting them in there!
One other thing of fancy metaphysical numbers mumbo-jumbo. According to the Excel spreadsheet at the current pace I'm going, I have 99 hours left to write. 99 hours but at work now ain't one.
Yesterday in getting to the current word count, I went through some pretty important words in the life of my story. Word 1776 ended up being "the" (how exciting is that!) but the more important words in my novel actually have a cryptic meaning - almost entirely by accident.
Words 1812-1815 (the years of the War of 1812 when my alternate history takes it shape) are "Liam did not turn."
The fact that I'm writing a novel about trying to find a government mole in an underground organization makes those words just too fitting! It's too perfect in an Illuminati or Bible Code sort of way! Hopefully that doesn't give away too much but I pretty much say from page one that Liam isn't the spy.
I seriously did not plan it beyond knowing that the all important words 1812-1815 were coming up shortly. And anyone who knows me knows that I'm big into numeric significance so I find this amazing!
In other news, "I am the walrus." :)
Seriously, if the novel ever gets published (and that's a big if of course) and you hear rumors about "hidden messages" in "Stars, Bars, and the Crown," they're all true. But I'm not intentionally putting them in there!
One other thing of fancy metaphysical numbers mumbo-jumbo. According to the Excel spreadsheet at the current pace I'm going, I have 99 hours left to write. 99 hours but at work now ain't one.
posted by incendiarymind at 7:10 AM
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