## [RT][HSF] S.I. Book Six complete

* Author: u/DataPacRat  *Amateur Immortalist**
* URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bk1r-nxx-wxfvTH5o72Sq-dbshF8iqiOaZ3vGb_X1YU/edit
* Score: 13

* Created: 2014-12-12T02:07:08

### Post:

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### Comments:

> **u/DataPacRat** [+2]  *Amateur Immortalist* (3 minutes later)
> 
> I started writing this thing in the beginning of June. I've been going for six months, have written 272,000 words... and my protagonist /still/ hasn't even learned of any of the real powers of the setting, let alone met them. But I think she's starting to get closer to that point. :)

> **u/xamueljones** [+2]  *My arch-enemy is entropy* (16 minutes later)
> 
> Awesome! I've been reading through the Google Docs and it's really good and well-written. I wouldn't say that your plot is taking too long to get anywhere, but rather you have such a detailed and involved world with fascinating characters who all demand their 15 minutes (or more!) of the spotlight.
> 
> Are you planning on trying to get this published? I would definitely buy it (preferably as an e-book). Although I get that sense you aren't going to, otherwise why would you make a [website](http://www.datapacrat.com/SI/) for it?

>> **u/DataPacRat** [+4]  *Amateur Immortalist* (24 minutes later)
>> 
>> > Are you planning on trying to get this published?
>> 
>> There are multiple reasons why this book is never going to go through any of the traditional publishing houses. My current thoughts are that, once I finish, I'll probably make it available in chapterized form on my website, and a "Pay What You Want" tipjar mechanism for a nicely formatted ebook. (Said thoughts are open to being changed between now and then.)

>>> **u/xamueljones** [+2]  *My arch-enemy is entropy* (3 hours later)
>>> 
>>> By the way, I didn't notice this earlier because I usually read from the Google Docs, but why does your website have only the first chapter up when you have six books of material?
>>> 
>>> Also what is the significance of the syllables by each book number? The ones like Book One: Re, Book Two: In, Book Three: Ex,....

>>>> **u/DataPacRat** [+2]  *Amateur Immortalist* (8 hours later)
>>>> 
>>>> > why does your website have only the first chapter up
>>>> 
>>>> Laziness, mainly. I put the first chapter up while experimenting with how to format the text, and the site's general layout; but just haven't gotten around to converting the rest of the text into individual chapter-pages. One kind soul created a shell-script to run some regex on the plaintext that I write in and convert it into HTML that matches that sample chapter, with curly quotes and em-dashes and so forth; and it wouldn't take /too/ much effort to adapt the first chapter's header and footer into a template to copy-and-paste the converted text into... but I've been focusing on other things, such as writing the story itself.
>>>> 
>>>> > what is the significance of the syllables by each book number? 
>>>> 
>>>> When I started writing, I thought I'd end up with something like a novella, and starting each chapter with 'Re' seemed like a decent way to reference Bunny's recycling and rebirth and renewal and all that jazz. By the time I figured out that the story would be at least three 'books' long, it seemed easier to adapt the system with a new prefix per book, then to try to come up with thirty chapter titles all starting with 're-'. If you squint hard enough, then each Book's prefix could be viewed as the theme for that book, but I haven't felt a need to let that tightly constrain what I can write.

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