Hard descisions

10/16/14


Hurray! Book 2 Part 2 is now out. Now I can Breathe?

I've already set in motion chapters for book three. But I had to make some difficult decisions as to the outcome. The first is perhaps the most obvious. In book one, The Telescope of Elsewhere, I wrote the book as a mystery. I wanted Joan to learn who she was and about her fantastic history along with the reader.

In book two, In the Eye of the Beholder, the overall pace is as an adventure. We know who most all the villains are and we are foaming at the mouth to learn how the story plays out. So I wrote this one as an adventure.

My first hard decision of book three was to keep it as an adventure, or turn it back into a mystery. So I counted on my fingers and found that if I write five books, there are three left. I know the last will be an adventure, no question there. So that leaves books three and four. Should I make them all adventures? Where all the action in on going and fast paced, or do I set up the book five, clean up books one and two in a mystery format. There is so much more that Joan must learn and to that is must come from discovery. And discovery usually means mystery.

There you have it my first hard decision is done. Book three will be a mystery and books four and five will take place as an adventure. Now on to the next hard question I need to work out, will Joan want a baby?  At 374 years old, one might think she would want one. But I think the progression of the story wouldn't allow that to happen. I think it would be fun to turn on the rumor mill about a baby though.