Graeme Rodaughan's Blog: Writing The Metaframe War Series - Posts Tagged "writing-goals"

I don't know if I've mentioned it before, but I have a nicely percolating idea about a spin off mini-series with Chloe Armitage as the MC in her 'enforcer,' role against the backdrop of the second world war.

[1] Uber Vampire vs Vampire fights - check.
[2] A vile Nazi plot - check.
[3] A child with metaframe sorcery access - check.
[4] A secret faction of high-level Nazis that are aware of the existence of vampires and the metaframe - check
[5] Rogue vampires from the Mekra blood cult - check
[6] The whole world at risk of being drawn into a reality where the Nazis are invincible - check.
[7] A lone warrior (Chloe) who finds that personal commitment can change everything.

I wonder if I could pull these novellas off with Chloe in the first person (except for the prologue - which I'll do in third person as it doesn't have her in it)?

I'm very intrigued by the idea and as my head is firmly in design mode at the moment, it would be straight forward to knock out the design and have two fully designed works to bring out this year.

I've never written a serious story in 1st person, I tend to think the narrating character really needs oodles of charisma and depth to carry it off. I guess I just had to wait until I had a character that had those characteristics.

How I see this working, I flesh out a design for a three book trilogy, all as novellas - hence about 50K words each. Get the first one written and published this year prior to the release of The Crane War.

I can use this to lift my publishing tempo to two books a year, and just do the novellas as ebooks, not paperbacks, as that simplifies the production process.

Also, I can repeat the process with any number of books.