Sitting at 46,828 words with just under three chapters to go, then the first draft of How They Got Their Wings will be complete. A very rough draft, but a complete one.
And already I'm looking to the future. I'm tempted to give Camp Nanowrimo 2013 a shot during the April session, but I don't have anything prepared for the untitled second book. I have a general synopsis in mind and the beginning/ending but the characters still have to figure out what happens in the middle.
Its scary, not knowing whats coming, but thats how it was for How They Got Their Wings. And man did that first book turn out to be awesome, even as a rough draft. Storywise it doesn't need too many changes. I'm very, very proud of what I accomplished with it.
I think thats why the emptiness of the second book is scary. I'm worried its going to suffer "middle book" syndrome as its the tent pole between the first book (which I know to be awesome) and the third and final book (in the first trilogy). And man, that third book... its going to be epic. Super epic.
The first book sets up the world. The second book needs to take this new world and run with it, all while setting up the third book where the payoff happens. But I don't want it to be just a tent pole. I want the second book to be looked at as a solid entry in the franchise that has its own story to tell outside of the support it lends to books one and three.
I guess I need to get on that outline.
Genesis - Time Table
