My first SF book is finally selling as a POD offering on Amazon’s Kindle. I wrote it a long time ago and always imagined it as being the center book of a three book series. I started in the middle because that’s the part of the story that was the most developed in my mind for ten to fifteen years prior to writing it.
Now that I am getting some feedback from readers on the story, I’m finding that it may be advantageous to come back to the series and develop the other two books. One reader at my office spent some time trying to get out of me where I was going next with the series. He was genuinely interested in what I had planned. His questions got me thinking of things I had not thought about in years.
I really have no intention of writing the other two books in the series at this time, but I have been forced to think about them. To ponder story lines and work out the Big Picture of the series. If not for anyone but myself, so I better understand where I want to go, should the need arise. In the mean time, I have other projects to work on.
Still, it’s interesting to ponder during a sleepless night or when I’m daydreaming. Do any of you have ideas for sequels or a series based on something you have not yet sold?
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April 29, 2008 at 4:18 pm
stefwithnf
My current WIP (work in progress) was originally meant as a stand-alone. However, I have been having little spots of inspiration for possible follow-ons. I don’t know if they will happen or not. That depends on if I can sell the first one.
I have been writing since 5th grade, when I first learned what it was to creative-write. I have story ideas that date back 25 years, the largest of which will be a graphic novel when I finally take the time to develop it. I have a trilogy in the high-fantasy genre, but I have had so much fun world-building, it has never truly gotten off the ground. This one is a little newer than the graphic novel, but only by 5 years. The detective trilogy was also originally a stand-alone. That changed when the prequals popped into my head over the last two years.
However, as yet, I am still unpublished…a problem I hope to rectify in the next 18 months.
In all honestly, I am forcing myself to focus on the WIP, get-er-done, then I can decide what to work on next. If I let myself get distracted by all the other shiny possibilities in my head, or those I have already written, then I will never become a published author.