Dark Turn
fter nearly a decade of working on this trilogy (okay so maybe not this trilogy, but the general characters and ideas that make up the trilogy), I was pretty sure that I knew my characters well enough that they couldn’t surprise me anymore. Then, things took a very dark turn and one of my characters definitely did something that surprised even me.
I knew before I even started writing it, that book three was already going to be the darkest out of the trilogy. It had to be. But I also hoped that somewhere certain elements would give a small glimmer of hope, if only briefly. So when this particular character who’s motivations are admittedly always pretty selfish took their darkest turn yet, I have to say I was admittedly pretty surprised. I guess I never really pegged them as being good or evil necessarily, I left that up to the reader to decide, sure they had good intentions, but as we know the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The upside to this surprisingly dark turn is that it means I’m actually writing more, and more regularly too! It’s been a kind of rocky eleven weeks in which I had rather hoped to be doing a ton of writing and even finish the first draft of book three only to do next to no writing and not even come close to getting a first draft done.
Up until this book I’d never really had a problem making deadlines, but something about book 3 has been quite insistent that it will be ready when it’s ready. Not the other way around. Frankly I’ve been ready for a long time now, at least, I think I have. Maybe part of the reason it’s taking so long is that mentally I’m not ready to let the story go yet. Even when I was working on book 2 it still felt like I had a while to go before the trilogy was finished and here we are on the last book and it’s still hard to believe that after this, and after ten years it’s going to be over. Don’t get me wrong, I’m mostly very excited, excited to be working on other projects and to see where the next decade takes me. But clearly some small part of me must be upset that it all ends with this book.
