Rebekah F
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Kay Solo:
Surprise, me again! Coming from having read Moon and Flame, I was wondering: how much planning did you do in advance for Ghost Walk, and how much more did you have to do for Moon and Flame? Was it harder to write a sequel than a prequel? How much of Moon and Flame did you already know about when writing Ghost Walk/how much of it was new?
Kay Solo
Hello again!
Now that I've done both, I found sequels to be more difficult. Moon and Flame was easy for me because most all of it was already there. The specific events, the new characters, all of that was already in my head out of planning for Ghost Walk. So Moon and Flame was really just me writing down stuff I already knew. Whereas, with a sequel, that's an entirely new thing to set up. I often think backward for the purpose of character development, but not as much forward, since my primary concern is making sure the story I'm working on in the present is properly developed. I'll think about how the characters continue to develop over time, but for a sequel I actually need a whole story and structure to go with it, which is where it gets more challenging.
Now that I've done both, I found sequels to be more difficult. Moon and Flame was easy for me because most all of it was already there. The specific events, the new characters, all of that was already in my head out of planning for Ghost Walk. So Moon and Flame was really just me writing down stuff I already knew. Whereas, with a sequel, that's an entirely new thing to set up. I often think backward for the purpose of character development, but not as much forward, since my primary concern is making sure the story I'm working on in the present is properly developed. I'll think about how the characters continue to develop over time, but for a sequel I actually need a whole story and structure to go with it, which is where it gets more challenging.
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I'm usually good at picking up references in your writing but I'm not as well versed in mythology. In the Fairfield Frightless there are references to the fates and sirens having a shared history and singing together. Is that from something or is that particular to your series?
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