Development - Tying it all Together

Even before I released the first book in the Wardenclyffe Series, I had already outlined all of the books I knew I wanted to write in the series. All their own standalone stories, which connected together to form an even bigger picture of the world in which they take place. I wanted to write a series where you could pick up any book and enjoy it without having read the others, but if you did read the others, you’d start to see the connections between them like characters from one story appearing in the others, or events taking place at the same location, hundreds of years apart. I found that having detailed and thorough outlines helped me figure out how all the puzzle pieces of the stories fit together.

After the first book was released, I took a month and wrote the first draft of the third book in the series before going back to start editing the second book. And I did the same thing again this year, almost two full years later. After the release of the second book, I took a month to participate in NaNoWriMo and motivate myself to finish the first draft of book 4 in the series. And very fortunately I was able to come out of November with that first draft!

   

So now as the year comes to a close, it’s almost feels like I’m at the halfway mark with the Wardenclyffe Series. The first two books are fully published and out in the world, and I have first drafts of the last two books just waiting to be edited. And I know it’ll probably be another couple of years before I finish everything, but it feels exciting to start to see everything come together. And nice having a sense of where the series is going as I start thinking about editing book 3!