Today I wrapped up Tome 2 of Runesward. I'll be honest in that it didn't end quite where I wanted it to end - but it seemed a logical conclusion to this section of story. Tome 1 was about the journey to Hasp and all the different paths that lead there. Tome 2 was all about the journey to Callisto and some of those paths converging. Tome 3, to my mind, is the journey to the Elven city Muir'tiat'amorellen and a more in depth understanding of exactly who/what Yren really is - and where the gods, D'agowyn, Elves, Dwarves (oops! Spoilers!) and so on fit in. It will also begin to bring us face to face with what the Church of Tyln is. I can say no more without giving away some important clues - and half my fun is reading the theories the readers put together about what is really going on. Luckily, no one has figured it out yet - though some have come close.
In the meantime, I'm working on InCAPable. I had the story for the end of Calix's trilogy worked out in advance two or more years ago. Real Life™ just got too busy and I lost the path to writing for a bit (stupid Covid). Now, re-reading the notes I'd put together... I'm not happy with it. It doesn't advance Calix as a character... it's just more of the same. So, I'm in the middle of changing things and moving back to what Fairly CAPable was all about, at least to my mind. I'm partway through the new first chapter - even without completing my storyline notes - and I'm fairly enthused about it. It feels much better. As always, the ending is already 'written' (at least in my head) so I'm just trying to get from NOW to THEN.
I have a tendency of writing myself into a corner... frequently. Then, I have to take a few days to a few weeks off while I let the idea percolate in my head and try to figure a way out of it. This time, I'm going to try to do something different. When I write myself into a corner, I'm going to try changing stories.
While I considered a new, more poignant way to get Calix from NOW to THEN, I started on Runesward Tome 3. However, while I'm rather happy with Chapter 75 (it needs some tweaking yet), I hate what I did in Chapter 76 (it reads like an instruction manual - ugh!). While I'm trying to figure out a different approach in Runesward, I've started a new story I hope to finish tentatively titled From the Dead. I'm going to kind of round-robin these three, moving from one to the other as I get stuck or the mood hits me. The three are different enough, I think I can write the different points of view without overlap... if I can't, I'll go back to concentrating on one or the other.
Next, though, I need to begin reposting all of the chapters with all of the changes my crowd-source editors found. I will apologize in advance, but I've lost SOME/MANY edits people have made. I'll try to credit where I can, but if I don't list you it's not because I'm snubbing you but I've legitimately lost what you helped me with. I sincerely apologize.
Finally, I'm working on bringing some of my work to Bookapy. I have some stuff to do (my completely unartistic butt somehow needs to come up with covers!) but I hope to have some of them posted in the coming few months.
Thanks for reading!
Kenn Ghannon