Liner Note #29

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

Someone asked me the other day how long I planned DGC to be. The truth is I don’t know how long it will be. I have various events in the plot planned out, but my estimates of length I’ve tried to make so far have always been wrong.

I certainly never expected that the two months of the “1989” tour would take two YEARS of the serial to tell, and over a quarter million words! If we count the end of the tour as the end of the fifth ebook volume, then here are the word counts so far:

Vol One: 46,068
Vol Two: 104,577
Vol Three: 83,891
Vol Four: 148,069
Vol Five: 108,608

Add all five together and you get just under 500,000 words. (491,213 if you want to be exact about it.)

For comparison, the seven volumes of the Harry Potter series total to 1,084,170 words (according to the Internet. I didn’t count them myself.) So by the time Ziggy gets out of rehab… the boys will be halfway to defeating Voldemort!

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