Decisions decisions…
I was thinking over the weekend about Travelers and how I’d really love to write more about Jake and Lana, but Travelers was written to be the end of the series. The only way I could write more would be to write a book before that detailing their life together before the events in the final book, which I may end up doing. I’m thinking there may be one more of the regular part of the series after this one to wrap things up with that part of the storyline, and then I’ll either end it with Travelers or write that other lead in book first and then publish Travelers after.
Then again, I may end the regular series with this book and wrap things up for this part of it in an Epilogue. I kind of want to end the series so I can move on to other things, but I want to do it right. Travelers came out awesome, but getting to Travelers is leaving me with some questions about how I want to proceed.
Oh well, I guess I’ll make that decision when the time comes. I just finished chapter 9 of Infestation after a weekend where I felt like I just couldn’t get enough sleep. Yeah, it was one of those weekends. What a waste. 😛
Funny how one small thing can lead to something far bigger…
So I was writing chapter 11 of Infestation today. Well, yesterday and today now I suppose since it’s three in the morning now and I just finished the almost eight-thousand word chapter. I had something happen in it that was only going to be a relatively minor thing, but as I wrote, it actually turned into a major thing that took up the entire chapter and will continue on into the next.
Some people plan out their entire books ahead of time. I never have, and that’s exactly the reason why. When you write organically, the story practically writes itself. All you have to do is to press the keys to make it happen. If I’d have planned out my book ahead of time, I’d have limited this to a rather small part of one chapter, but instead it turned into this major thing with aspects of morality, mercy, revenge and other story elements that really ended up being something I’m quite proud of.
I don’t really have much else to say other than that. The work on Infestation is progressing along at a normal pace. I should have it finished in the next couple of weeks and then I can edit it and get it published. I’m still having a dilemma about what do do next. I feel like there’s still another book or two I could do before publishing the final book of the series, Travelers. I’ll just have to see where the writing takes me. I’m thinking at this point that there’ll be at least one more book before Travelers, because I need to wrap some things up with the rest of the series before I publish that one. There might be more than one, but we’ll see what happens.
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