by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Now that I have the general plot of Book 1 of this six book project down pat, I can seriously begin to think about Book 2. I have a general idea rolling around in my mind, but I fear I’m going to need to talk to a manuscript consultant AGAIN to actually get anything finished.
If all else fails, I can always skip the next (2?) books and get right into the the situation where things get a lot more interesting. I’m really torn. Really. One moment I think it’s obvious that I need to skip two books and within a few seconds, I’m telling myself I can’t do that because there are two really good books I could write in the same universe.
What I MIGHT do is compromise — start to work on the four book while in the back of my mind thinking about what I might do with the second and third book. Maybe? The only reason why I might do this is I need keep my momentum going and I don’t want to waste a few months spinning my wheels struggling to figure out how to come up with the plot of a two novels when I could zoom through three novels pretty quickly.
So.
I don’t know what I’m going to do.
What’s more, I really need to work on a novel or two that has connection to this novel I’ve been working on for years. Something that fits the metrics of being shorter and in one male POV.
UGH. Just thinking about all that bullshit puts me in a bad mood.
Anyway. I still have a few more days before I’m going to get nervous and really start to throw myself into writing within the context of development. I should be reading RIGHT NOW, but it’s something of a struggle to calm myself down and sit somewhere to do it.
