by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
So, here I am, now working on four books instead of what I was working on — two books, one story. This is double the work, obviously, but it actually makes completing the whole project easier — since I’m working on all four books at the same time, I can create something out of whole cloth and plop it in the past if need be to help me get me out of a pinch later on in the series.
But the key issue remains — I have to actually finish this thing, no matter how many books there are.
I’m looking at these four books as one huge story that is broken into four parts that have plots and character arcs of their own. I think I may have reached “saga” levels of storytelling at this point. But whenever I get a little nervous, I remember how great the characters I’ve come up with and how entertaining the over all story is.
Now that I have four novels in this “saga,” I have plenty of room to play with. If I want to flip the script or do something different, I can do it in-universe and help the overall goal of finishing the books.
But, as I have been for some time, I’m completely delusional about all of this. This project has gone from me just wanting to write a novel to writing two novels to, now, four novels. I’m doing all of this blind. I have no idea if anyone will actually be interested in any of this — I mean, why should anyone care? But I feel given how crazy some of the stories out there are these days, it doesn’t really matter what’s going on as long as you have a coherent plot and interesting characters.
At least, that’s the theory.
