March 2024 Story Status…
High Fantasy: Outline of prechapers and intro to first part complete.
It was a bit tricky, as I'm rewriting the entire trilogy (which may not be a trilogy now, since adult books can be massive. It may not be necessary to split the story). I had written over 100k of this story and now I’m (and don’t vomit on my behalf) binning all of it to start again. Remember, this was originally going to be for younger audiences, and now I need to start from scratch to make it for adults. That means new character backstories - as they are older - the world needs building up, the story can be more intricate and have a different tone and so on. It wouldn’t be possible to rework what I’ve already written. I attempted it, but it was too much of a job and I reckon that starting from zero words would be, frankly, easier than that. But as the world is pretty fleshed out, I’m not completely starting from the beginning. I can keep all the planning and histories I’ve done that have nothing to do with this first story. So, after eating an Easter Egg on Sunday (along with birthday cake!) I made the decision to start again.
100k - gone in a flash.
Horror/Suspense: Location rewrites and synopsis, along with new covers, complete for the four Phobia sets of short stories - they're available to purchase now.
One novella edit underway. Aiming to do more overviews of new novellas, with a goal to try and get them published this year.
Cozy Mystery: Moved into another, much larger, notebook, so I can do proper overviews of the first few stories. To be honest, I feel like I’m plan-crastinating with this series. I should point out that I am starting over, as I mentioned before I don’t feel like my original story was something I could edit effectively, as it was written over a number of years. So, as with the High Fantasy, it’s going to be a complete do over.
This one had come up to around 30k, but it wasn’t finished. I can definitely salvage a decent amount of it, but not any of the original crime.
Websites: all websites have been set up and/or updated. Pretty happy with them, actually. This one - my Amasin Clare one - is where I’ll be blogging the most. The others will only receive updates when I have them for the actual stories being published.
Plans are in place for April ‘24, so as long as I stick to them - which I am terrible at doing! - I should have more stories for you to read soon.
Ama.x