"Your friend, just before she left, did she punch you in the face? Stop bleeping me!"
Wherein Jack talks about her newest idea. as promised...about time, right?
Those who have been around for awhile might remember a dragon story I wrote for NaNo - it was my project two years ago. (Don't worry, I will publish it someday so you can all read it. It is kind of next up after the Loyalty Trilogy is out, but I can't make promises of what order it will fall into.) You probably all know something about The Broken Blade as I do mention it a good deal. (You can find more details about it on my book page.) And then there was this years NaNo which flopped on me. I was very ready to give up on that one all together but the characters refuse. They keep pestering me, demanding I write their story, but more on that another day.
As you can tell, or gather from the mentions of dragons and swords, I like Fantasy. It is my favourite genre, next to Steampunk. (I've a fascination with gears and clocks and airships and it kind of surpasses my love of dragons and elves and kings - but not swords. Which is why I have swords in both genres.) Anyways, when I began the Haphazard books I put a lot of the Fantasy ideas I have on hold. Now that I've finished The Broken Blade they've all come back. I even pulled out and dusted off some very old ideas I had - and a couple of completed manuscripts I was ready to give up on.
Right now I have seven different Fantasy ideas - well, more than that but a few aren't Fantasy, just middle ages type. But the seven I've on the top of my list have a lot in common with each other. Elves, Dragons, Swords, Kings, very mean bad guys, kingdoms falling apart...(I don't think the plot is as over used as I am making it sound...)
The other day I was thinking about all of these different ideas and thought how fun it would be if all the different kingdoms existed in the same world. And, as happens with me, the idea jumped all around and back and forth and by the time I was done I had it worked out. Well, mostly.
I still have a lot of work to do, like what I will call this world and what it will look like.
What I do have right now is knowing that Nightshade, the Kingdom in The Broken Blade books, is the main one. It was the central one and everyone in the other kingdoms started there. And I do know that, when all of the other books are out, I am going to have one final book in which important people from all the kingdoms will get together and fight a final battle. (That's a spoiler, right? There, I've given a spoiler.) I love it when Fantasy books end with a big battle - Lord of the Rings, Narnia - so I am all excited now at the thought of getting to write a whole book about a battle.
I will have more information the more I work on this idea. For right now that is all I have and I want to get to bed kind of early so I can start my first week of no longer being on holiday off right.
Quote is from Doctor Who - shocking, right? The one where we first meet Donna. (I forgot how much I like that one in spite of the spider. I loved it when Donna was with the Doctor, they were so funny together.)
Allons-y!
Those who have been around for awhile might remember a dragon story I wrote for NaNo - it was my project two years ago. (Don't worry, I will publish it someday so you can all read it. It is kind of next up after the Loyalty Trilogy is out, but I can't make promises of what order it will fall into.) You probably all know something about The Broken Blade as I do mention it a good deal. (You can find more details about it on my book page.) And then there was this years NaNo which flopped on me. I was very ready to give up on that one all together but the characters refuse. They keep pestering me, demanding I write their story, but more on that another day.
As you can tell, or gather from the mentions of dragons and swords, I like Fantasy. It is my favourite genre, next to Steampunk. (I've a fascination with gears and clocks and airships and it kind of surpasses my love of dragons and elves and kings - but not swords. Which is why I have swords in both genres.) Anyways, when I began the Haphazard books I put a lot of the Fantasy ideas I have on hold. Now that I've finished The Broken Blade they've all come back. I even pulled out and dusted off some very old ideas I had - and a couple of completed manuscripts I was ready to give up on.
Right now I have seven different Fantasy ideas - well, more than that but a few aren't Fantasy, just middle ages type. But the seven I've on the top of my list have a lot in common with each other. Elves, Dragons, Swords, Kings, very mean bad guys, kingdoms falling apart...(I don't think the plot is as over used as I am making it sound...)
The other day I was thinking about all of these different ideas and thought how fun it would be if all the different kingdoms existed in the same world. And, as happens with me, the idea jumped all around and back and forth and by the time I was done I had it worked out. Well, mostly.
I still have a lot of work to do, like what I will call this world and what it will look like.
What I do have right now is knowing that Nightshade, the Kingdom in The Broken Blade books, is the main one. It was the central one and everyone in the other kingdoms started there. And I do know that, when all of the other books are out, I am going to have one final book in which important people from all the kingdoms will get together and fight a final battle. (That's a spoiler, right? There, I've given a spoiler.) I love it when Fantasy books end with a big battle - Lord of the Rings, Narnia - so I am all excited now at the thought of getting to write a whole book about a battle.
I will have more information the more I work on this idea. For right now that is all I have and I want to get to bed kind of early so I can start my first week of no longer being on holiday off right.
Quote is from Doctor Who - shocking, right? The one where we first meet Donna. (I forgot how much I like that one in spite of the spider. I loved it when Donna was with the Doctor, they were so funny together.)
Allons-y!
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