The Writing Front

[kriadydragon]

The new original story is coming along, slow but steady, and I'm happy. Or I should say relieved, because I'm about four chapters in (five if you count the prologue) and still like what I have so far. I don't feel overwhelmed by it or uncertain of it, which had plagued me all throughout the writing process of my last story (the one I finished but am utterly unhappy with.) The way I figure it, I kind of jumped the gun with the last story, in that I had a great plot but hadn't completely thought the setting and "feel" of the story through. What I'd wanted was something surreal, something skirting traditional but in a non-traditional setting. What I got was Law and Order: Special Wizards Unit - police procedurals with a little magic tossed in, and completely not what I'd wanted. I've since been rethinking the entire story and think I know where I went wrong and what to do about it. But it's still a work it progress I don't plan on rewriting for some time.

This new story is just plain fun, the characters especially. But I'm wary, because the idea for this story ended up turning it into a trilogy and I've yet to actually finish a trilogy. Times, however, have changed for me. I actually finish what I start, even if I don't like it, and it's high time I actually finish a trilogy seeing as how I have a ton of them in mind. Phillip Pullman, the author of His Dark Materials, also gave some excellent advice on dealing with epics: take a break between each one by writing something else, and I intend to try that.