I'm about half-way through the second draft of Mind Games. It's slow going because I've had to stop and think about some things. I've decided to beef up the first chapter, and basically re-write it from another character's POV. This character wasn't planned to be in the book at all--he was scheduled to first appear in book 3--but I figured it wouldn't hurt to introduce him here, even though there's not much for him to actually do. He'll get the first chapter and then a wrap-up scene at the end, I guess. Like I said, I'm still working on that.
Struggling with tone. What seemed the way to go in draft 1 is not looking good in draft 2, so I'm altering the tone a bit. It's frustrating, because I feel like I'm hanging on to this story by my fingernails. Hopefully it will all snap together in the end.
I've got a rudimentary outline for an urban fantasy novel. :o I have no idea when I'll actually get around to writing it, if ever. Depends on how sales of the Wheel of Fire go, I guess. If the series doesn't sell well after I've got three or four books out, then I might abandon it. But that's looking way too far ahead. The series might take off after book 3 like Timothy Ellis's series did. There's simply no telling. But I'm committed to Wheel of Fire at least through book 3.
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