So - books one and two complete, about time to start work on the third then? To be fair, I think starting a new book and plotting it's intricacies is always difficult - I just forget how labourous the task was previously because I have a shiny, finished book to show for it.
Each time I start a new book I have enough ideas for maybe three chapters and some idea of the 'big events' including the ending. It's scary starting off like that - without much idea of where things are going, but I have found in the past if I plot in too much detail I have 'told' the story and am already bored of it by the time I get to writing and all my interest fades. So - to counter this - I note a few things down that I don't want to forget but then allow the story to take me off where it wills. In book two of PI a character who was only ever meant to be a voice on the phone muscled her way into the action and built up her part. Likewise a throwaway character from PI1 decided he wanted a larger part and became rather vital to several aspects of PI2 and his shadow threatens to cast itself over the whole series. On the other hand a character I thought would be more obvious was little more than a shadow across the PI world.
Well, this procrastination here with you has been lovely, but it's not going to get book three written so I'd best be off.
Each time I start a new book I have enough ideas for maybe three chapters and some idea of the 'big events' including the ending. It's scary starting off like that - without much idea of where things are going, but I have found in the past if I plot in too much detail I have 'told' the story and am already bored of it by the time I get to writing and all my interest fades. So - to counter this - I note a few things down that I don't want to forget but then allow the story to take me off where it wills. In book two of PI a character who was only ever meant to be a voice on the phone muscled her way into the action and built up her part. Likewise a throwaway character from PI1 decided he wanted a larger part and became rather vital to several aspects of PI2 and his shadow threatens to cast itself over the whole series. On the other hand a character I thought would be more obvious was little more than a shadow across the PI world.
Well, this procrastination here with you has been lovely, but it's not going to get book three written so I'd best be off.
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| The rough mock up of the PI3 cover |
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