Kenn Ghannon: Blog

The preliminary responses to 'Fairly CAPable' are fantastic. I'm glad, since I changed the pace and focus of the story a bit from 'Pretty CAPable'.

Don't get me wrong, I liked 'Pretty CAPable' - even now, I re-read it from time to time (and I definitely read it before writing 'FC', to get back into the heads of the characters) but it didn't delve as deeply into ancillary characters as I would have liked. It didn't necessarily examine the 'why' of what the characters were doing - well, it did a little, but I wanted everyone to get to know more about the secondary characters this time around. I wanted to make sure they never became one- or two-dimensional. I think I've achieved that in 'FC' better than I did in 'PC'.

Of course, it makes the story longer because I had to deal with each of the characters on an individual basis - but I find I didn't mind that so much. I hope no one else does either.

Thanks for reading,
Kenn Ghannon

P.S. I have been getting a few questions about some of my other works - specifically, 'Ring of Command' (patiently waiting to be re-written or at least finished), 'Runesward' (which is waiting on Tome 2) and 'Not Enough'.

I'm committed to finishing 'Ring of Command' but I have no date in mind for it yet. I'm actually hoping to do a complete re-write and clean up some stuff - but we'll see where I'm at later on in the year.

I'm currently writing 'Runesward, Tome 2' - but I'm not heavily at it. In other words, I'm writing as I have time instead of making time to write. I hope to have it finished and ready for editors by the time I finish posting 'FC'.

Finally ... 'Not Enough'. I'll have to think about finishing it. It was meant as a trilogy but Marc was a very dark character and I have had difficulty getting into his mind-set. I'll consider moving back to it - but I don't know when and I won't say it for certain.

'Fairly CAPable' will begin posting with the 'Ch 00 - Prologue' tomorrow. I've already uploaded and set release date for tomorrow morning, so I expect it to show up. I won't be home when it posts, so I'll check on it later.

Once it posts, I can start posting the later chapters to be released on a scheduled basis. I like the new 'delayed' feature for uploading but a limitation is the first one has to post before I can add more chapters.

We're still editing it but we're close to half-way through, so it's time. If we catch up to the point where I have no more edited chapters available, I'll likely continue posting and then go back and replace the unedited versions with the edited versions.

Thanks to the stalwart efforts of my amazing editing team, we have reached the 'Chapter 16' threshold and 'Fairly CAPable' will begin posting on Saturday, May 30, 2020. Further chapters, one per posting day, will be posted every following Tuesday and Saturday until completion (or, until I run out of edited chapters to post, whichever comes first). I was going to wait until we finished Chapter 17 - but it is such a tiny chapter, I didn't see the purpose in waiting.

This leads me to an important note - as I've said before, I will only post one chapter on Tuesdays and one chapter on Saturdays. Some chapters, like chapter 17, are amazingly short (chapter 17 comes in at about 2.5 Microsoft Word pages which is inordinately tiny). Some chapters are quite long (20 or more Microsoft Word pages). No matter how short or long, I will only be posting one chapter each Tuesday and one chapter each Saturday. Issues with the posting cadence and chapter sizes will be cheerfully ignored.

On the 'further stories' front, 'Runesward, Tome 2' is coming along and I hope to have it at least in editing by the time I finish posting 'Fairly CAPable'. That is a goal, not a promise. I know better than to promise. :)

Against my muses very vocal objections, I've put the story she's whispering in my ear aside and sat down to battle with 'Runesward, Tome 2' once again.

It's been a few months since I've lived in that world. To refresh my memory - and make sure I don't write things which contradict things I wrote earlier - I've taken to re-reading what I've already written in Tome 2.

... and I've fallen in love with it all over again ...

I'm only five chapters into the thirteen or fourteen I've wrote, but I can almost feel the care I had in putting down the chapters. I was careful and descriptive, letting myself look and feel as the characters did and writing it from a 3rd party perspective but seeing everything as they saw it. Experiencing everything as they experienced it.

And, as time went one, it was something I lost. Things became less descriptive because at some point I stopped living in the world and just started trying to get to the end. The story suffered for it.

That can't happen. I can't let it happen.

Luckily, I don't really need to re-write anything (except maybe the last one or two chapters which are very choppy) - just breathe deeply of the story and re-word some things. Let the characters tell me what they see and feel and record it in words. Not really simple - but it's what is needed.

My muse has been incorrigible lately. I've 'Fairly CAPable' in edit. I've it's sequel (tentatively entitled 'InCAPable') which needs to be written. I have Runesward Tome 2 sitting in a folder forlornly waiting to be finished (I'm 14-15 chapters in but I need to do some re-writes to some of the chapters; the 14-15 chapters are maybe only the halfway mark of the story!). I've got 'Ring of Command' bubbling in the back of my head, needing to be re-written and/or finished. So why, oh why, does my muse put yet ANOTHER story into my brain? How the hell am I supposed to find time to write yet another story?

This one is pretty good, too, and based in the very near future (a year or two out). I won't give away many details but it's a 1st person POV about a 14-year-old dealing with traumatic loss and change. My muse keeps throwing different parts of it at me, in no particular chronological order ... and I keep dutifully writing down the plans, ideas and so on and try to fit them into some kind of timeline. It's frustrating.

The ending for Calix's third story is already planned out. I know just how it's going to end. I know a bunch of the things I'm planning in the middle and I've even written a few pages of the first chapter for it (necessary - so I have a good starting point when I sit down in earnest to write the tale).

Anyway, we're still working on 'Fairly CAPable' and I think we're only two, maybe three weeks out from the start of posting. I really need to start posting sometime in June because I have a number of vacations planned this summer and I need to get things settled before those come up. I'll keep everyone informed as things gel.

Take care,
Kenn Ghannon