At this point, the story has a long way to go. I’ve barely even scraped the surface of this world and its people even sixty-four pages in. I’ll admit, such an amount of writing in such a short time as one month is an accomplishment, but there’s no point to patting myself on the back until it’s complete. 

As a result I need to set goals as to how I’m to go about this story; earmark different points at which I can step back and take a look at what I’ve written so far, to ensure continuity within my work even with little editing.

On the subject of editing, I don’t intend to edit my work until I’ve completed the first draft, at the very least. Not until I am able to hold a bundle of pages within two hands and call it a story will I be done with the draft, and it will go through at least five revisions before I think about sending it to a publisher.

In the meantime, I have gathered a couple of links to useful sites regarding the publishing of work, either by self-publishing or how to go about sending work to a publishing company, and have listed them below for the usage of anyone who bothers to stumble across this bit of writing. I will continue to add to this post as I find links, and at some point go back in and evaluate their usefulness for anyone interested in writing/publishing.

http://www.blurb.com/?SSAID=314743

http://cbiclubhouse.com/

http://www.agentquery.com/

http://www.smashwords.com/

So it's December now; I didn't reach the goal of 50,000 words by November 30th, but I managed to break 40,138 words. I'm currently still working away on my novel, and it has now reached 40,691 words so far. From the looks of it, this is going to be considerably longer than I originally intended, and may perhaps be part of a series.