The trilogy is written, Hugo’s story is written, Victor’s story is stuck and I have another in my head for Fred to be part of. I started putting some of it down and realised I had to sort out the timeline. Once I’d done that I thought there was quite a long gap between Victor’s story and this one.
I could write it with a large gap, but then I also need to work out what has happened to a lot of the characters, who knows what, and how they might have developed. And I might want to fill in the gap with more stories. It would be a lot simpler to set Fred’s new story a little earlier, but then I’d have to drop another bit of that story and move it to another, later, book.
I think I’ll go back to the illustrations for Pirates, get that published and think about the ongoing stories as I do it.
Yeah, that’s probably best. You’re trying to tackle too much at once, perhaps??
Yes I think you’re right. But as other self-publishers have said, what we really want to do is write the stories!
But then I wondered whether Hec & Humph needed to have their back story told in more detail. That draft Prologue for #6 doesnt really do them justice, after all.