here comes the flood.

So, possibly you will have noticed that I kept talking about this big big Numb3rs story I was writing, and then I said I was finished, and then I didn't say anything at all for a couple of months.

That is about to change.

Starting Monday, I'll be posting the story (which has a name but I'm still not saying what it is because I am oddly but deeply superstitious on this point) in twenty-seven parts over the course of about five weeks. The story as a whole is about 250,000 words, and the chapters (a structure I am trying out for the first time and don't quite have the hang of yet) range from 4,400 to 16,600 words.

The story is written in its entirety; I'm serializing mainly so that I can format and proofread one chapter at a time without trying to do it all in one go and getting really sloppy. And also because I enjoy torturing you, yes, of course. It's been three years for me, you can cope with it for five weeks--or, if not, then I apologize in advance for the twenty-seven interim posts, and the complete story should be up on or about July 15. I hope you'll give it a whirl then, but don't blame me if you lose an entire day to it.

Please be assured that if I am run over by a bus before then, iuliamentis has a complete copy as well as instructions to finish posting for me.

( Tentative Posting Schedule )

( And a bit of rambling about what this epic story of mine *is*. )

It's been what's in my head, to varying degrees, for more than three years. And it's really, really, amazingly, finally, almost ready. Here it comes.