Valley of the Dead, Algebra, and Life in General

I'm going to go for something different and put my "postscript" first. At the moment, I'm working on "The Valley of the Dead" and finding it long. While it's only a fourth the length of Ethics at the moment, I have barely scatched the surface of the story. There is so much more to be written in it that I'm left wondering just how long it will actually be.

For example, Valley will be fifteen chapters, a prologue and an epilogue. If I put the same amount of detail from the first chapter into the second, than the second chapter will easily be fifteen to twenty times the length of the first. The first chapter covers a twenty-four hour span of time to introduce the main characters. The second chapter is where the action starts, with the first seventy-two hours being in a great detail. This second chapter ends about two months after it starts. The third chapter will probably be the shortest chapters. As for chapters nine through fifteen, I don't even have more than the extremely vaugest idea what will happen. It might be years before I even get a first draft done. I'm talking Stephen King's The Stand length (the uncut version), if not Under the Dome length.

I think I've bitten off more than I can chew.

In other news, my summer class is going well. I'm passing at least, thank God. It of course comes with a price, in that the rest of my life is falling to pieces around me.

Sometimes...I really hate my life...