New Beginnings

Book #4 in the Inheritance of Magic series is underway!  My milestones for starting a new book are generally 1) creating the new file, 2) writing the first paragraph, and 3) writing the first page.  At the moment I’m halfway through the first chapter, meaning that I’m past all three of those milestones.  So even though the book’s only 2,500 words long so far, it feels to me like it’s come a long way . . . and it has, because the gap between writing the first notes and step 1) is usually longer than the gap between step 3) and being 9 chapters in.

Writing this book feels a lot like starting fresh.  Now that they’re done and I can look back on them, volumes #1, #2, and #3 in the Inheritance of Magic series feel a bit like a self-contained trilogy.  They start with Stephen in one place and end with him in another.  Not all the plot threads get tied up, but all of them do move out of one phase and into another. This means that now that I’m starting on book #4, I’m free to come up with relatively new stuff.  It’s actually quite fun.

Next week will be the last Motion Sigls article, and after that I’m finally going to take a break from going through the branches and do something a bit different for variety’s sake.  Definitely going to do corporations, attunement, and sigl recycling, but haven’t decided yet what order to cover them in.