Facts and figures.

Apocalypse the trilogy in a million pieces draft one was finished this evening. The draft began on December 22, 2007, although in honest much of the work was done since September.

Here are the facts and figures.

Words: 98,104.
Chapters: 39, as detailed elsewhere on the blog, plus bonus features.
Pages: 226 (MS Word, Times New Roman 12pt, not the final book size and shape).
Characters: 484, 546 with no spaces.
Paragraphs: 3051
Minutes: 23,000+ or 383 and a third hours which is 10 working weeks, or nearly 16 days without doing anything else. (These are minutes the document has been open, have not spent all that time typing, but does not include thinking time.)

The completion of the first draft makes the author confident the 09.09.09 date for the book launch is realistic, though notes that most of the contents are not.

UPDATE: Having failed to meet the 100,000 word mark, which was not a particular aspiration, means it is unlikely the book will be submitted to any universities as a thesis on the philosophy of anti-post-postmodern monotheism and the subversion of materialistic society. Pity really, but there's scope for that to change after editing.