Writing Strategies: Working on the Sequel to Birth Right: Galak's Rising

I've already begun working on the sequel to Birth Right: Galak's Rising. In fact, I wrote a full chapter of the sequel to include as a freebie in the back of Galak's Rising. When I realized that the book would be 380 pages, I decided it was long enough.

Since then, I've revisited the sequel to continue writing on it and currently, I'm resting from it. When I reach page thirty or so in a novel, my characters start to take over, except in the case where things get complicated.

Birth Right has a large cast of characters, including twelve main ones. I introduce them gradually, so no worries. When I started the sequel, I realized that I had to go back and catalog everyone's physical description and history. It's not a fun thing to do and is better to do before the first book of a series. That way, at this point, I would have been halfway through drafting the sequel.

The second strategy I am using is to accept what comes. Whenever I pause in writing, characters and storylines are developing during that time.

Everything happens for a reason and this weekend, I'll most likely complete work on the Birth Right audiobook with six other readers. I'm narrating my book and the others are reading parts. It's pretty intense.

Next week, I have a book promotion coming, so stay tuned.

As I mentioned in the back of Birth Right, I saw it as a movie first and I've seen some of the movie images from the new book in my mind's eye and they are shocking. Books two and three take the plot to a larger scale. I'm going to do some crazy things with history that may surprise you.