Volume V: A 1st Draft?

…And I’m back! This will be short, so let’s dive right in.

After puttering around with Vol. IV and reverse plotting it, I went ahead and looked at what I had for book V in the series. After its own treatment of the reverse plot and listening to it, there was more in the book than I expected, but it was also a hot mess. With roughly 70% written, it wouldn’t take much to just pick up and finish it. 

So, I did. 

And now, after eight-plus years in limbo, Vol. V has its first rough draft. There are a lot of minor issues I want to fix with the book, and that will be easy to do on the rewrite. What I did for this round was solidify my character templates, making minor or major modifications to it as needed, and cementing it in place. Moving forward with those characters, it’ll be more cohesive. 

Volume V is a stark contrast to all that came before and all that will follow. It’s a stand-alone within the series, but a necessary one. I’ve written the series in such a way that when you pick up book six, it will start where book four ended. You might ask yourself, well, why is book five important? Why write it at all? The characters I’m bringing into the narration in book six will be drastically different than the characters introduced in book three, and book five tells that narration. And … book five is where a lot of the answers are starting to come out, not little kernels, but big plot pieces. So, yes, you can skip five, but you’d miss out on a lot of important information. 

What big plot piece? Glad you asked. There’s a character that will be introduced in Volume IV, and he will play a pivotal role in all that’s to come. He’s expounded on in book five, with a bigger appearance, and it’s just a taste of what’s to come. An old tribe within my world boasts to have the only living god in memory, and they’ve worshipped him through generations, having built him a temple and even seeing him in the flesh. His name I won’t reveal, but in their language it means, ‘the god among us.’ And … I think I’ll leave off there, don’t want to spoil it for anyone. I hope it won’t be too long before I begin writing the second draft of the story, but in some ways, it’ll be like writing a first draft, due to changes that need to be made. It’ll be an interesting time. 

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