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Kit Melbourne 6 Progress and Delays
I have rules for myself, and one of them is that I only work on one project at a time. I work on it until it's done, and then I go on to a next project. It's a pretty good rule, keeps me from having a lot of half-finished projects lying around. sometimes the 3/5ths mark of a novel is the nadir of inspiration, for example, and without this rule I might not finish anything.
But I had a novel I wanted to work on that had been haunting me for a while. I have a title for it that I love "Prophet of an Indie God" and it's in an alternate version of America. A really, really alternate version. I had only written one truly second-world novel before, and it was a hot, steaming mess. But this time would be different.
Eight months and 50,000 words later, I decided to set it aside. I got too bogged down with worldbuilding and lost what excited me about the project in the first place. I'm going to finish it, someday, but later.
So I started working on the sixth book in the Kit Melbourne series. I had already written it. It was, in fact, one of my favorites. It deals with a woman dying of an incurable disease, a boy who sees faeries and a girl who stopped aging as a tween. There's a really cute scene at a Halloween festival when a faerie-made costume turns to leaves and grass at midnight, forcing its wearer to sprint home in the all-together.
But I had to throw it all away. When I first wrote it, I was learning to write, and I wanted to explore other characters, but now that I'm publishing this series as the Kit Melbourne series, I feel that each book has to have her as a main character. I tried to insert her in there, but it just didn't work.
So I'm rewriting it with a new plot. Some of the characters bear passing resemblances to the original characters, which will confuse those half-dozen people who read the first version, but it's now darker and more twisted. I hope it will remind people of stories they've heard about or lived through in their own lives. I hope it will resonate. I know it will entertain.
But I haven't gotten very far, so you're not going to see it until late 2015 or early 2016. In the meantime, I plan to publish some stories I've been holding in reserve, and maybe try to edit and format and get some other novels ready for publishing. I plan on publishing at least one thing in 2015, but this one, this book that was once called FAMILIAR BATTLES, this one may take a while.
I hope you agree it's worth the wait.
But I had a novel I wanted to work on that had been haunting me for a while. I have a title for it that I love "Prophet of an Indie God" and it's in an alternate version of America. A really, really alternate version. I had only written one truly second-world novel before, and it was a hot, steaming mess. But this time would be different.
Eight months and 50,000 words later, I decided to set it aside. I got too bogged down with worldbuilding and lost what excited me about the project in the first place. I'm going to finish it, someday, but later.
So I started working on the sixth book in the Kit Melbourne series. I had already written it. It was, in fact, one of my favorites. It deals with a woman dying of an incurable disease, a boy who sees faeries and a girl who stopped aging as a tween. There's a really cute scene at a Halloween festival when a faerie-made costume turns to leaves and grass at midnight, forcing its wearer to sprint home in the all-together.
But I had to throw it all away. When I first wrote it, I was learning to write, and I wanted to explore other characters, but now that I'm publishing this series as the Kit Melbourne series, I feel that each book has to have her as a main character. I tried to insert her in there, but it just didn't work.
So I'm rewriting it with a new plot. Some of the characters bear passing resemblances to the original characters, which will confuse those half-dozen people who read the first version, but it's now darker and more twisted. I hope it will remind people of stories they've heard about or lived through in their own lives. I hope it will resonate. I know it will entertain.
But I haven't gotten very far, so you're not going to see it until late 2015 or early 2016. In the meantime, I plan to publish some stories I've been holding in reserve, and maybe try to edit and format and get some other novels ready for publishing. I plan on publishing at least one thing in 2015, but this one, this book that was once called FAMILIAR BATTLES, this one may take a while.
I hope you agree it's worth the wait.
