So here I was this week, bopping along on the sequel to Spellweaver, when one of my side characters comes storming into my brain. She’s got my muse by the ear, and is demanding I write a story for her too. In the spirit of keeping the peace, I’ve scattered the beginnings of a beginning into a Word file (open source version). That seems to have calmed the character down somewhat, at least for now.
It also helped me to get past a minor block in my sequel’s storyline, which will hopefully get the words flowing as they should. The upshot of a first draft is that I don’t have to worry too much about the content beyond “blah blah and then this thing happened”. Putting meat on these bones is what the second draft will do.
Anyway, in addition to the direct sequels planned for the Gilded Empire (I guess that works for a series title), there is now a spin-off in the works. I won’t discuss it further, except to say that it might be a tad above my skill level as a story-teller right now. So I may have to bang away at it in the background as I pad out the other direct sequels.
Muses, amiright?
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