Proceeding... · 8:52am Apr 26th, 2019
I don't think anyone's holding their breath, but, I've been leaning more and more to actually attempting the sequel to Night Reigns.
Night Reigns was a lot of fun. I wrote it in the style of a "never ending story" like I used to enjoy on the old BBS's, with the primary exception being that I played all the characters instead of just one or two. I rarely planned it out, I just let the characters lead me as I wrote each chapter, fully off the cuff. (There were a couple of things I really wanted to see, but it wasn't really planned).
Despite that, it felt like it was going pretty good for a while. Then it got a little lost in the middle and ended up going to a different destination than originally intended. That ticked off a lot of people, hehe. But, by the final revision I think I sanded most of the ugly bumps down and I'm pretty happy with where it ended up.
But I told myself I didn't want to get stuck in the middle again, because I usually have a good idea what I want the end to be, and I can write a decent enough beginning, but man do I hate middles. So I told myself I wasn't going to write any of the sequels unless I actually had a plan for it, start to finish.
Well, I don't have that yet, but over the last year I've been taking random notes on what it MIGHT be. Recently some ideas started to gel, and I have 15 pages of notes about what might happen in such a story. I guess with the end of the series coming up, it's been sort of on my mind. (But let's be honest, there's no way I'll write 6 sequels before the last episode. On the other hand, my AU is far enough diverged that it doesn't matter what canon does...)
At any rate, it got serious enough tonight that I started planning out each character arc, and so I figured I'd end the night of note taking with a note here, on the off chance anyone wants to chat about ideas.
Yay