The Quicksilver Chronicles · 4:30am Dec 10th, 2020
Now that I had two new characters Quicksilver and Mist Skimmer (Misty), I developed a number of one paragraph story treatments. The stories were generally action/adventure of the go-there/do-that variety. There were some false-starts where I'd start working on a story, then stop to work on a different one. But eventually I completed one: High Water Mark. Soon after, a second story was done: One of Us. This was late August or early September.
During that process, I came up with a name for the series: The Quicksilver Chronicles. Although only two stories didn't seem like much of a series. But over time, ideas for additional stories turned into actual completed ones. I was surprised by the diversity of the stories. As I said, I thought they'd all be go-there/do-that stories, but that didn't turn out to be the case at all. I guess that's good as it brings more variety to the series.
Now it's December and I have a total of nine stories completed, and a tenth currently being written. But getting from a story draft to something that is ready to publish turned out to be much more complicated than I imagined. Writing the story may be the easy part.
Next week: Pre-Reading and Editing
