My target word count for my scifi/horror/fantasy novel is about 100,000, with two sequels planned in the work. I'm not attached to either number, it's just a completely arbitrary way for me to measure progress for book1 while designing literary cohesion with potential book2&3. I plan on going hard on Good Politics™ in the third book, before that it's mostly setup and dog whistles.
Outlines, character sheets, drafts of paragraphs/chapters that haven't had their book/chronology set in stone yet. Wild stuff.
Anyways, unsolicited advice on any aspect of fiction novel writing would be appreciated, no matter how random!
My one bit of advice is don't wait to go hard on Good Politics(tm) in the third book and instead deliberately weave some initial threads into your first book. They don't have to take center stage, but don't wait to put in stuff you look forward to putting in. Get it started, get it on the radar.
I had actually thought about this earlier. If I go full vegan-kropotkin-stalinist (with dengist-mao unity characteristics) in chapter one, will that alienate the average reader of books, or is it silly of me to be scared that people who read books would be chuds?
It's a lot to think about, and I have plenty of time to figure out the right amount of power level to reveal in book 1.
I just wanna say I respect the idea of frog-boiling the libs