Marking the moment–the beginning

Today I'm blogging to, as the title says, mark the moment. Today, I start writing The Lost Ones trilogy, the sequel to Dream of Asarlai.

I'm excited about this – it's  a story that's been growing in my head for several months and of course it's going to be wonderful to go back to the gadda and Sclossin and dip back into that world and reconnect with my old friends.

Originally, the gadda books were going to be a six book series, however I was convinced to stick with writing just three, in case I got sick of the world. That three then became a trilogy, with a storyline over the three books and the other three books slipped from the radar. From time to time, the thought would come to me and actually, I had no interest in it. What I wanted to do after I finished Dream of Asarlai was to return to Battle for Odana.

However, towards the end of writing book three, Rogue Gadda, I started to have glimpses of scenes featuring other characters. One romance in particular came to me crystal clear and over time, so have other scenes.

On Saturday, I finished the draft of the new Battle for Odana. It requires a lot of work and I'm not sure that I've actually written the last scene of that book, but it's there. I've got a 95,000 word novel that is the basis of the story and I feel comfortable enough in saying I've finished it to leave it alone for now.

That means I'm not free to start moving on The Lost Ones. The plan – to have something ready to start submitting in six months. I'm hoping that I might have at least the draft of the entire trilogy, and book one polished to a shining wonder by then.

All this of course means that Nanowrimo is going to be rejigged. I've decided to start again. I'll go back, get rid of all the previous wordcounts and get cracking. 50,000 words between now and the end of November. It's doable. Very doable.