Twice in one day! And I’m used to bi-monthly.

This did start off as a Facebook post on my AUTHOR PROFILE but I thought it better suited as a progressive Blog entry.

Today’s creativity has ended well. I have formulated a good third of the novel I’m working on to bring The Magdon Series into a present day setting and cater to the audience who have asked for more to the story than is in the child-friendly novelettes charting Archy’s adventure.



As such I have begun structuring the story from the chapters I have already written and as my daughter hands me love heart sweets these seemed rather apt as I finished the day’s work.


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I am very happy with how the story is progressing and have brought a lot of personal imagination into this story as a bit of an outlet for things that have brewed up in the old noggin for many many years.



I do worry I am giving a lot into this story but I will not excuse myself by sitting on the idea I could write a series from this. I want to create a strong single entity in the mythology of The Magdon. If I choose to continue it beyond this story then I have an idea where that would go, but I want to have a tight end product that fulfils some of the issues/feedback I have had from my other ventures.



The key points for me are:



To invest enough time for each character, this is difficult for me as I am normally a single-protagonist writer but I am trying to share the adventure between a family unit. The father will be the main but I want everyone to form an opinion of the family members too. The same is to be said of my villain(s) who will be given enough time to develop beyond the two-dimensional nasty-people.



To give a meaty story, moving beyond the simplistic nature of Origins as a series which was designed to incorporate everyone as readers, young and old, experienced and inexperienced. No bones visible on this (save perhaps a Nivag or two).



Lastly to play to my strengths, although with one review of Footprints On The Other Side rated it as 2* mainly because they didn’t like the twist they did say I had a good tone for writing action. In respect of this, I am pushing my character work but also adding some pretty intense action along the way, some physical and obvious (cars, fights etc) but also building some tension-based action which may not be screaming and bawling but will at least, I hope, keep the reader interested.


It is a time of creative madness and I am sure aspects of what I have scripted thus far will fall to the wayside, and perhaps become the unplanned next story. I am loving this burst of creativity and am pretty sure my dear wife is irritated by me sitting here flitting between random odd jobs, gym sessions and writing.

I am sadly well aware that I turn into a “writing zombie” when I really get going. I am living in the vague, outlandish, probably ridiculous hope that perhaps this will one day be less of a hobby and more of a real thing. That said I really do need to get my thumb out of my butt and get my head around advertising in that case. Unless some glorious agent or publishing house (non-vanity) happen across my world and think they could/would run with it, then I am in this on my own.

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Until I scrape enough money together to hire a PR consultant.


Sorry! I appear to have rambled on a distinctly lengthy amount of time.