Series of Possibilities (Repost)
In honor of my four year anniversary here on WordPress I’m featuring 10 of my favorite blog posts from the last year.
Yesterday I announced on my Facebook that in the midst of working on my current work in progress, I had (as usual) gotten an idea for an entirely new story. Or at least, a new way to tell an old story anyway. It’s an exciting new adventure that I really want to embark on, I managed to write about ten pages of outline last night for the first book and if all goes as planned I think I might be able to drag this out into a longer story over all. For a long time now I’ve wanted to write a series, originally Secrets of Witches was intended to become a series and for a time that really seemed like a possibility. The original goal was a lofty 13 book main series with a sort of spin off of 5 more books totaling 18 in this particular universe (although at one point I remember thinking it was 20). Within a matter of just a few short months 18 dropped to 8, then to 5 and ultimately down to three within a matter of years. No other story has really felt right for a series because I have too much of a propensity to kill off my main characters for the good of the story. It would be very difficult to try and continue writing a story with 98% of your main characters dead and the very likely possibility that the character the story is about won’t survive the end of the story either. Unless you decided to take it some route that follows their long distant half brother or something, which would be weird.
Nevertheless, this latest idea, has at least with it the possibility of being able to be taken out into a longer series, I’m hoping for at least four but I could really see myself being happy with five or six books too. I think I’m going to have to do a lot more serious outlining before I can make any official pronouncements, and obviously every pronouncement I make should come with the asterisk, subject to change. I promise I’ll keep you updated and hopefully I’ll have a series to work on shortly after my current W.I.P.
