I continue to work on part two of The Loyalty Gene. Unlike part one, I'm writing this part non-chronologically. Per the original outline, I know certain key scenes must occur. Instead of leading up to them, I'm writing/updating them first.
It's freeing because I don't have the weight of a previous chapter's content to slow me down. The downside is all the editing I can see in my future. Making sure everything ties together is going to be a challenge.
One happy byproduct of writing out of order, is those key scenes are becoming more detailed and stretching out into full chapters. It looks like this process might work out for me.
My one big problem is still around. I need an inspiration to make the words flow. Without a kickstart, all I do is noodle around on my keyboard.
Currently in work is chapter 12. Thirteen, fourteen and fifteen are complete. Chapter sixteen is outlined. Seventeen thru twenty have outlines but need reviewed and updated.
Looking over the scores for the prequel, I can see some people didn't like it. I wish they'd send me a message and tell me why. Yeah, the prequel is dark. Bad things happen, but I have to make the bad guys worthy of their fates. Consider Kurt Vonnegut's sixth rule:
Be a sadist. Now matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them - in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
Maybe I missed tagging something and a reader disliked what they read? One of the best parts of SOL are the tags. I have a robust input filter and rely on the tags quite a bit.
I've corrected one one editing error in the prequel.
Kurt Vonnegut's other rules can be read here.
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