Update on Novel Two

[image error] Yep, its coming. That's the main thing.

Novel two has been delightful. Seriously. I'm at about 25%, which means I should be hitting the soggy middle any time now. But fingers crossed, because so far its been really fun.

Which is surprising, because honestly, I think this one is going to be more intense than The Keeper. This new novel is turning out to be heavier and more...psychological and even spiritual than I expected. I do have a working title for this book, but I'm so ridiculously superstitious about saying too much before the project is far enough along that I'm not going to tell you yet.

But it is coming along. I think so far this has been easier than the first novel (knock on wood fingers crossed), in large part because of some structural differences. The Keeper has a more typical structure, with a climax that most of the novel is moving towards, and then a denouement. A nice solid structure, but it does make for some days of angsting towards that dang climax you wish was HERE ALREADY.

This novel is different, at least in my head. I guess it has the same normal structure, with a climax that its building toward, but in my head it looks more like a staircase, with obvious steps before the BIG EVENT. Two, to be exact. So instead of having one big moment that I'm moving towards for a whole novel, its more like I have a first big thing, and then I move towards the second big then, and then its the big climax. Its been fun and so far easier to work that way.

My main characters name is Olivia, I will tell you that much. Maybe I have already? I don't remember. Anyway, she is fourteen. In a way it has been cathartic to work with her, because I've never felt like the teenager I was has really been done in YA literature and now is my chance to do it. Well, that's not quite accurate. She is more the teenager I am right now, than the teenager I was when I was actually a teenager. If that makes sense.

Anyway, that is how Novel Two is coming.

How about you?

Sarah Allen