I'm slowly picking up AW and am about 7,000 words into it. This part is hard because I'd never intended to do all this, and now I'm writing -- or very near to writing -- a war story -- and that's daunting. It was all going to end where Part 1 did -- Mary and Asim waving good bye to Peter and then pick up in 1946 with Peter and Digory on their way to Russell House with a group of Trils.
I also have, gosh probably 30,000 words written of Harold and Morgan. I wish AW were going faster and I really don't want to disappoint people. It's not the story it was intended to be, and that's a good thing and is completely due to readers. And that I have no discipline.
The basis for Susan and Peter's split is already in the story. It's been there since TQSiT. Oddly this was one of the things were there was a massive departure for the better from the original story as I initially had not intended to tell Susan's story at all until after the crash. I was going to go a traditional route with Susan and then kill everyone and then pick her up and help her find friends and meaning and full life. Mary (who was to be Digory and Polly's executor) and Asim were going to meet her at the solicitor's office -- never having met her before -- and then go with her to the graveyard and thus begins their relationship and I had a whole thing with them going to Rome and Istanbul and drinking espresso in the middle of the night above the Spanish Steps and in the shadow of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. Instead, when readers saw my initial idea for Mr. Pevensie in Part 1 and asked, "Gosh, so what is Susan doing?!" I thought, well, errrr, yeah! espionage!!! I only went there because readers asked. I have no regrets. I love this story arc. But I never would have gone there without readers asking about her.
Anyway, I do get down about things -- the messages that I'm doing it wrong, etc. They come in waves and they tend to come, ironically, when I'm less equipped to deal with it. Things have been better so yeah for all that! Thanks so much!
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I'm slowly picking up AW and am about 7,000 words into it. This part is hard because I'd never intended to do all this, and now I'm writing -- or very near to writing -- a war story -- and that's daunting. It was all going to end where Part 1 did -- Mary and Asim waving good bye to Peter and then pick up in 1946 with Peter and Digory on their way to Russell House with a group of Trils.
I also have, gosh probably 30,000 words written of Harold and Morgan. I wish AW were going faster and I really don't want to disappoint people. It's not the story it was intended to be, and that's a good thing and is completely due to readers. And that I have no discipline.
The basis for Susan and Peter's split is already in the story. It's been there since TQSiT. Oddly this was one of the things were there was a massive departure for the better from the original story as I initially had not intended to tell Susan's story at all until after the crash. I was going to go a traditional route with Susan and then kill everyone and then pick her up and help her find friends and meaning and full life. Mary (who was to be Digory and Polly's executor) and Asim were going to meet her at the solicitor's office -- never having met her before -- and then go with her to the graveyard and thus begins their relationship and I had a whole thing with them going to Rome and Istanbul and drinking espresso in the middle of the night above the Spanish Steps and in the shadow of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. Instead, when readers saw my initial idea for Mr. Pevensie in Part 1 and asked, "Gosh, so what is Susan doing?!" I thought, well, errrr, yeah! espionage!!! I only went there because readers asked. I have no regrets. I love this story arc. But I never would have gone there without readers asking about her.
Anyway, I do get down about things -- the messages that I'm doing it wrong, etc. They come in waves and they tend to come, ironically, when I'm less equipped to deal with it. Things have been better so yeah for all that! Thanks so much!