Getting Back to It
I am not a full time writer. I write as a hobby,
and an interest of mine. I may blog more often than I write, but I still enjoy
and am continuing to breathe life into my Kalvel series.
With the return of Game of Thrones, and possibly The Winds of Winter arriving next year
(just my guess, we will have to see) I have become more motivated to write more
in one sitting, and more often. So it will be a little less blogging lately, and
more effort put into my novel as well as the series it is a part of. I will still
stop by and say hello every so often. It may once a week, or once every
two weeks…nah, that’s too long. About once a week.
Most of the planning for Vol. 1 is pretty much
done. I know who the main five viewpoint characters will be, and where Vol. 1
will end, and Vol. 2 will begin. I have a few chapters written, as well as the
Interlogue. I have a good idea of what will happen to who in Vol. 3-5, and some
ideas on where to end one volume and start another. But I’ll worry about those
when I get there. Now, my main focus is creating the map for Vol. 1, as well as
the actual writing process. And some
thought as to what the ‘focus’ of Vol. 2 will be – the viewpoint characters,
what will happen to who in that volume…. I have a good overall idea and plan for
the series, but the focus for the time being is Vol. 1. I’m working on that book
and the series as a whole at once so things can fit in together, mesh and line
up. I want to lay the story down as best as I can before it gets into the hands
of any editor, then work on finer details later on. Essentially, the best books
they can be before I even think of printing them or sending them out.
Future volumes will be more and more fleshed out,
of course, as I write them. The writing won’t be me filing in the blanks,
because that would be no fun. But dealing with a five-volume fantasy series,
where each book will be about 600-800 pages in hardcover, there’s going to be a
lot of trimming and making sure everything conforms to what I have in mind. I am going to save everything. If a plot thread or
something does not work out in a novel, guess what, it could pop up
later as a short story, novella or something of the sort. Should I
need a sixth volume, it will just be because Vol. 5 is too large. That sixth
volume won’t be overly large, most likely closer to 600 pages, even if volume 5
is 770. These are just my personal guidelines, of course, so my series won’t
‘run wild’. I predict the most difficult ones to write, and the longest to do so
will be the first (now) and the
last.
But what about
my writing beyond Kalvel and fantasy?? I have always been interested in
exploring gangsters (20s-40s era), zombies, spy / thriller, and maybe even
sci-fi, though for me at this point, it seems very tricky to create something
new or of my making in sci-fi that doesn't scream 'Stark Trek!' or 'Star
Wars!' for example Any of these fields could be novel, novella, novelette,
short story....we will see what happens.
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