I've got my second novel into editing at the moment and plan to get the first one edited later in the year. Meanwhile, after all my planning I decided to get going writing on a follow-on novel to the first I wrote. It's been dwelling in my head and I've written two stories on it so now I've got more of an idea how to proceed. I took the timeline from the first, grabbed a block of the over all history and am now laying down the words. Today wrote 600, just one scene after getting the time line set. so I'm at about 10000 words, not bad. It's the characters that are fun. I have four good guys and two bad guys so far. And, of course, life is tough for them all. I eventually want another in the series, with only minor overlap in characters. The timeline is the big part of how they connect. They share a set of events in a world history. The third one requires Chinese history just like my third unconnected novel, so this allows me to read the 3000+ pages of material a bit slower without getting stuck not writing.
I did need to get a book because I decided who my hero was and his identity required a profession I didn't know much about. The funny thing was I saw the perfect book six months ago for it at the UW bookstore and stupidly didn't buy it. Today, I went looking on Amazon.com, Powell's and on Barnes and Noble, no luck. So Bob very courteously drove me to the UW Bookstore. It was gone. Imagine that, lol. So the staff helped us look for the book and eventually found the name and that is was available at Amazon. But I bought two other books at the UW Bookstore instead and came home and ordered the other. I guess, this was happy birthday to me day.
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