Beefing Up the Next Book

...more context and fleshed out ideas are working their way in

I’m about a third of the way through the main story for the next book, but I’ve spent some time this past week rereading it, editing it, and beefing it up.

As the story is already rolling, I’m still marinating on how to get to the planned finale, and with that, new ideas and new dots to connect pop into my head. Things always shift around in my brain when I am at this point in a larger/feature story.

Also, I’ve come up with some other connections between the main story of the book and the short story I’d like to include at the end of it.

This next book is a departure from the norm and takes one of the core characters to a very, very different place than he is used to. This provides him with new challenges, unique scenarios, and new people to interact with while he deals with some tragic, personal shit.

There is a lot in this story that has direct connections to the saga, as a whole. It helps lay the groundwork for big stuff that I am working towards, but that’s all I can say about it.

For now, that is it. It’s been almost a week since I have given an update. Really, there hasn’t been much to talk about other than my finetuning of what’s already been written.