elcome to the website of Shawn C. Speakman — webmaster and writer. Shawn has developed websites for New York Times bestselling authors Terry Brooks and Greg Keyes, among others.

Shawn also writes full time. The Dark Thorn, Book One of The Dark Thorn cycle, begins an urban fantasy in the tradition of Terry Brooks's Word/Void trilogy, Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files and Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. The first novel is currently being written.

To gain a glimpse of The Dark Thorn, read the Prologue (HTML | PDF)! Feel free to post your comments about Shawn's progress or any questions in his blog below.

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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Chapter 23

Chapter 23 is done, wrapped, finished. It was a chapter I got to wrap up one small plot thread as it merged into one of the larger plotlines. An event took place that bears on the final climax of the book. Bran has seen a great deal of Annwyn but it is time for him to see even more...

As the word count stands:

Prologue: 3045
Chapter 1: 4075
Chapter 2: 2973
Chapter 3: 3241
Chapter 4: 4144
Chapter 5: 4547
Chapter 6: 2793
Chapter 7: 3598
Chapter 8: 4939
Chapter 9: 4257
Interlude: 2372
Chapter 10: 3346
Chapter 11: 3185
Chapter 12: 3639
Chapter 13: 4878
Chapter 14: 4562
Chapter 15: 3840
Chapter 16: 3984		Chapter 17: 5441
Chapter 18: 4725
Chapter 19: 5651
Interlude: 3687
Chapter 20: 4537
Chapter 21: 4220
Chapter 22: 4275
Chapter 23: 4468
Chapter 24:
Chapter 25:
Chapter 26:
Chapter 27:
Chapter 28:
Chapter 29:
Chapter 30:
Chapter 31:
Chapter 32:
Epilogue:

Now on to a Cormac chapter! I like Cormac because he is so gray and I like exposing the overall story from a different perspective. Tomorrow I will begin outlining it. I know the general point of the chapter but haven't spent any time thinking on it. We'll see what happens!

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