First Two Pages of Hive Written

I’ve taken a brief pause on writing of The Color of Water and Sky series during the last few months as I’ve prioritized my time on non-Water and Sky writing projects. But after so many days of stepping aside and working on other projects, I’ve found that I’ve grown antsy. At long last, I couldn’t help myself and I finally got to work writing Hive, the fourth book in The Color of Water and Sky series (and my favorite title of all four).

Though I’ve only written two pages, these two pages were very science-heavy pages that required a great deal of research. As a result, writing these two pages alone took most of the afternoon (and even involved converting the unit kilmoeters-per-hour into the fictional unit of kotans-per-minute – a “kotan” by the way, is roughly 1.5 meters).

Historically the prologues in my books are very different, both tonally and conceptually, from the rest of the book. The prologue of Hive no exception. Where the prologue of book 1 took us to a surprise attack in a submarine, the prologue of book 2 took us to a spaceship orbiting the Earth and the prologue of book 3 [spoiler alert] took us to the far past, book 4 takes us to… well, it’s somewhere COMPLETELY new.

Come on, you didn’t think I was going to reveal all that right now, did you?

Now that I’ve finally written the first few pages of Hive, the rest of the novel will inevitably follow. I typically find that once I start working on a project, I become invigorated with a boost of momentum and keep going.

Hive will have the largest scope of any book in the series so far and will serve as its final chapter. The book will take us to different Kholvari cities across Kholvaria, to spaceships, to far away lands, and even to some returning locations.

As always, the book will be written in multiple-POV style. I’m still determining if it will follow four or five characters. Most likely, it will be five, since that’s what the other three books have.

In other non-Hive related news, editing is still underway for a particularly sensitive chapter of Veznek. It’s taking some time, but it is a chapter that needs to be handled carefully. Once I get that chapter tweaked and out of the way, progress on Veznek will happen very quickly after that (every project has its speedbumps).

As always, keep checking here for more updates on The Color of Water and Sky series!

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