Apparently, Christmas is not the ideal time to try to finish the biggest project you’ve worked on to date. Until the week following Christmas, I got practically no work done on Shadow Glyph, also, no blog posts. A large part of this is the faulty internet at my family’s house in Ontario, but also the nature of visits home.
Since Christmas, I have been working vigorously on completing the editing on Shadow Glyph. Now all I’m waiting for is a final proof copy to arrive in the mail. Once I review that, the book will finally be available via Amazon, Kindle, local bookstores (hopefully) and me! It’s quite exciting to reach this point, both to see my book in print, but also to potentially have readers! I hope everyone likes it!
For anyone whom I haven’t told, Shadow Glyph is the first of a series of five. Book Two is already in the writing stage, as I’ve made it my project for CRWR 383B, a novel writing course at UBC. I’ve got the basic structure done and several chapters written. I only mention the structure because it took me forever to figure out how I want to build Book Two. I was faced with the problem that I need to tell 3 coming of age stories in it, and I actually hate writing bildungsroman and Shadow Glyph is already one. Finally, I found a way to cut Book 2 down to a single somewhat troubled coming of age story, using a non-linear structure.
So, to conclude – the holidays were good, but back to work now!
I’m so interested in hearing how you reworked the second book to be a single story! Is it from one perspective, then? And I’m curious as to which character it would predominantly follow, if it is :).
There are two point of view characters, one about 10-15 years earlier than the second, and the chapters alternate between the two. Only one of them is a coming-of-age story, the other character has one or two flashbacks to his youth, but his story-line isn’t focused on his transition to manhood. Thanks for the interest!
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