by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Ever since I decided to add two books to the four novels I had been working on for years, I faced a problem — suddenly I had a series of four, rather than the traditional trilogy.
But I love all four novels and am willing to fight for them, so there you go.
And, yet, it has occurred to me that now that I better understand the first novel that I may have a fix at hand. Instead of a huge story I have to figure out how to compress, I simply use the first half of the first novel as the first novel. The second half of what is now the first book becomes the second book. The second book becomes the third in the trilogy.
The last two books would be the start of a new Millennium-like series focused around not the Mare of Easttown type heroine of the the three trilogy, but the Lisbeth Salander-type character.
At least, this is now a viable option. It would fix a lot — A LOT — of problems. I would now have two novels that were about 100,000 words and one novel that was a longer to wrap up the series. There was be a lot more consistency of tone with this now trilogy because the three stories would deal with the same general theme.
But all of this is still very much on the bubble. I may just say screw it and keep what I have. I do this all the time. I come up with a great(?) idea then vacillate wildly until I figure out if I’m going to use it or not.