the Almost Epilogues

emember how a few weeks ago I wrote a blogpost about how I had come up with the outlines for 5 different novels, but I’ve kept them pretty hush hush?

The reason for this is, that two of the novels, were the bare bones for what would have been a fourth and a fifth Secrets of Witches novel. Part of the reason I kept this information to myself was the obvious that I wanted it to be a surprise, but also because I needed to make sure I even had the ideas to make two more books. And as it turns out… I did and I didn’t. The truth is, I had the bare bones of an idea that could have encompassed a fourth and a fifth but I didn’t allow myself to explore the storyline enough to figure out what exactly would go into making these last two novels. At first I tried to tell myself it was because I wanted to work on book 3, that I didn’t want to take the time away to make up a whole new storyline for the final two novels, but they both would have effected book 3 significantly. Not to mention the fact that I had already written the outline for the other three books that were (and are) unrelated to Secrets of Witches so why not these two?

I’m not sure what possessed me to think that I would want to do another two books, the storyline that I was going to use and pray would stretch to two books, is still useful, thankfully, but I never wanted to write past three. Don’t get me wrong, I have loved writing these stories, even with as much as I’ve bitched about book 3… but I don’t believe I could have actually made a fourth and a fifth and frankly, I’m glad. I have a thousand and one ideas in my head, and if I don’t put Secrets of Witches to rest eventually, it will do what I always feared it would and consume my soul forever, never letting me rest, and never letting me work on anything new. Needless to say, I’m happy I’ve finally got a solid outline down (color coated and all) and I think I’m happy with where it’s headed. Still hoping for a fall release. Wish me luck there.