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Working on A Dragon at the Gate

September 24, 2013 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

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So I’m continuing to chip away at the pre-writing phase of book 3 of the New Aeneid Cycle (working title, A Dragon at the Gate). At this point, I’ve managed to lay down the skeleton of the book in the sense that I now have a rough outline of how I expect things to go. (Granted, once I actually start writing, this is likely to change, but it’s a good road map to start with.) It’s a good feeling; the difference between trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle with or without the box top to tell you what it’s going to look like, really.

Some things I’m still not sure of. There are characters who don’t really have much to do yet. One I’ve already decided to kill off for that reason. Other characters I know exactly what I want to do with, but not quite how to plug them in. I suppose one solution is going to be simply tossing them into the mix and seeing what they do. I bet at least one of them is going to mess up my whole plan…

I am also noticing that I have so much that I want to do with this story and characters that I MIGHT have to switch a planned trilogy into a quadrology. I’m not entirely sure about that just yet, and it’s honestly not something I really want to do. On the other hand, if I did slice this book in half, that would at least mean that much less time people will have to wait to get more of the story. So I’m torn.

As it stands, I suppose I should stop meta-writing and get down to some actual writing, huh?

Edit (11/27/2013): My original working title for this book was Here Be Dragons, but I’ve since switched it to A Dragon at the Gate to keep with the style of the other two titles. Whether or not said dragon is real or metaphorical is something you’ll just have to wonder for a while…

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