Austin Belanger's Blog - Posts Tagged "indie"
Starting All Over Again
I have spent the week dreading starting my sequel. I love my first book, but I didn't want to change the impact of the story by adding another aspect to it. Then it happened.
You writers know what I mean. You start daydreaming about the story. You know, when you're driving, and stuff. Then you show up at your destination, and you don't remember how you got there, but you have some great book ideas to scratch down somewhere, really quick.
Or you go to bed, and you dream about your story, and all of those little abstract notes start lining up in your subconscious. I know you get it. You wake up, and if you could write it all down real fast, you'd have an instant book!
Well, yeah, that started happening over the past week. While I was trying to get one computer working 100% in my house, and I was buying backup media for my files, I started piecing together the sequel to my book.
I started mapping it all out today. I began by writing out a document I affectionately call, "Playbook." It has all of my characters, where they are from, what they do, who they are in a relationship with, what race they are, how old they are, etc. My first book chronologically followed the life of Puryn and his supporting cast, so putting the surviving characters into a new book is not easy if you want everything to match up accurately. Accuracy can be especially hard when you've already determined their deaths and when they die, and you included that information in the first book. Everything has to match up, or the timeline nazis will show up, and you're in for it!
So, I wrote 4312 words over 15 pages of documents to support my second book. I think I may be a little over ambitious with the amount of content in this book, but we shall see if I can get it all in there or not!
I'm off to write the Introduction.
Here I go again.
Thank you for reading my thoughts!
My first book is "The Champion of the Golden Queen", and it is available on Amazon at http://a.co/5E1vucT
Please pick up a copy and leave a review. Have a great weekend.
Austin
You writers know what I mean. You start daydreaming about the story. You know, when you're driving, and stuff. Then you show up at your destination, and you don't remember how you got there, but you have some great book ideas to scratch down somewhere, really quick.
Or you go to bed, and you dream about your story, and all of those little abstract notes start lining up in your subconscious. I know you get it. You wake up, and if you could write it all down real fast, you'd have an instant book!
Well, yeah, that started happening over the past week. While I was trying to get one computer working 100% in my house, and I was buying backup media for my files, I started piecing together the sequel to my book.
I started mapping it all out today. I began by writing out a document I affectionately call, "Playbook." It has all of my characters, where they are from, what they do, who they are in a relationship with, what race they are, how old they are, etc. My first book chronologically followed the life of Puryn and his supporting cast, so putting the surviving characters into a new book is not easy if you want everything to match up accurately. Accuracy can be especially hard when you've already determined their deaths and when they die, and you included that information in the first book. Everything has to match up, or the timeline nazis will show up, and you're in for it!
So, I wrote 4312 words over 15 pages of documents to support my second book. I think I may be a little over ambitious with the amount of content in this book, but we shall see if I can get it all in there or not!
I'm off to write the Introduction.
Here I go again.
Thank you for reading my thoughts!
My first book is "The Champion of the Golden Queen", and it is available on Amazon at http://a.co/5E1vucT
Please pick up a copy and leave a review. Have a great weekend.
Austin
First Day of Writing in the Books
Yesterday I wrote the prologue to my new book. Being a sequel, it had to fall in line with the end of my first book, but I already did all of the prep work a couple of days ago.
I can't say that I had writer's block, per se, but I was experiencing a logjam of different angles that I could use to attack my introduction to my next labor of love. This was a minor annoyance and distraction so I started free writing all of the ideas down in Word as fast as they came to me. The result was a jumbled mess of incoherent gibberish that had no continuity with the timeline. That is when I walked away from the book for the night and began again this morning.
A fresh perspective and another night to dwell on the direction to where I wanted the book to go and I was ready for action.
Today I spent around 8 hours rewriting, editing, and proofreading 8 pages of text, totaling a whopping 3724 words. Not a big payday for me considering the time spent, but I think that it is a quality product for a revised third or fourth draft. It might even be acceptable in a month or two of scrutiny!
I am excited to be working on book two! I never thought that I'd finish with book one!
My first novel is entitled The Champion of the Golden Queen . It is available on Amazon at http://a.co/3aNwYvC
The Champion of the Golden Queen
Please pick up a copy and leave me a review on Amazon and here at Goodreads!
Have a great evening. Thanks for reading my thoughts!
Austin
I can't say that I had writer's block, per se, but I was experiencing a logjam of different angles that I could use to attack my introduction to my next labor of love. This was a minor annoyance and distraction so I started free writing all of the ideas down in Word as fast as they came to me. The result was a jumbled mess of incoherent gibberish that had no continuity with the timeline. That is when I walked away from the book for the night and began again this morning.
A fresh perspective and another night to dwell on the direction to where I wanted the book to go and I was ready for action.
Today I spent around 8 hours rewriting, editing, and proofreading 8 pages of text, totaling a whopping 3724 words. Not a big payday for me considering the time spent, but I think that it is a quality product for a revised third or fourth draft. It might even be acceptable in a month or two of scrutiny!
I am excited to be working on book two! I never thought that I'd finish with book one!
My first novel is entitled The Champion of the Golden Queen . It is available on Amazon at http://a.co/3aNwYvC
The Champion of the Golden Queen
Please pick up a copy and leave me a review on Amazon and here at Goodreads!
Have a great evening. Thanks for reading my thoughts!
Austin
