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ellarienI wrote a novel by accident once. (The first draft took eight months. The lovingly planned and deliberate ones took approximately seven and three years, respectively, and by the time they were finished I was too tired of them, and had grown up too much over those years, to go back and revise.) I was much, much younger, then, and my life involved a lot less travel.
What I can't remember is how far I was into the A.L. before I realized I had a novel on my hands, and not just a slightly longer novella like the two I'd written that summer.
At 15K words, Undone, the nice little 10Kword story I was going to write on Christmas day, and which I thought as recently as last night was closing in on its projected ending somewhere in the next few thousand words, is informing me that:
1) It needs (at the very least) about as many words again, with villains and action and excitement.
2) Its true name is The Ambassador
3) It wouldn't altogether object to carrying on after what I thought was the end, possibly at considerable length.
Hmmm.
I think what I might do is to give it its action subplots, wrap it up approximately where I thought it was going to wrap up (but now with more explosions) and then finish off the other two unfinished thing, and then see if it still wants to grow a Part 2. I'm not at all sure I want to write another Voyage novel, especially one without any Harry POV.
What I can't remember is how far I was into the A.L. before I realized I had a novel on my hands, and not just a slightly longer novella like the two I'd written that summer.
At 15K words, Undone, the nice little 10Kword story I was going to write on Christmas day, and which I thought as recently as last night was closing in on its projected ending somewhere in the next few thousand words, is informing me that:
1) It needs (at the very least) about as many words again, with villains and action and excitement.
2) Its true name is The Ambassador
3) It wouldn't altogether object to carrying on after what I thought was the end, possibly at considerable length.
Hmmm.
I think what I might do is to give it its action subplots, wrap it up approximately where I thought it was going to wrap up (but now with more explosions) and then finish off the other two unfinished thing, and then see if it still wants to grow a Part 2. I'm not at all sure I want to write another Voyage novel, especially one without any Harry POV.
