You know, to continue getting you excited about it's publication in (hopefully) two and a half weeks.
So, here you go, some interesting facts.
- - While writing chapter 2, I had the opening of the new Prince Caspian movie playing in my head. Thing was, up until my writing of it, I had not even considered the fact that they were similar.
- - Then as I reflected on it, I realized that Arthur and the movie version of Caspian have quite a few things in common.
- - My mom and I hashed out the initial basic plot in about two hours while Dad and my younger sisters were at Wednesday night church, sometime in the spring before Sew, It's a Quest was published.
- - Before that, Book two was going to be what is currently book five.
- - I tried the titles Sew, It's a Wedding and Say Yes to the Quest before finally settling on Do You Take This Quest. Say Yes to the Quest was the shortest lived.
- - The old man is mentioned in Sew, It's a Quest.
- - I tried two different openings before I finally tried starting with Arthur.
- - I didn't come up with Arthur until December, when I was reading the current opening aloud to my mom (because I was stuck), and she questioned the reasoning behind a certain character's behavior, and we realized that there was a bunch of Back History that involved the old man.
- - Thyme was a spur of the moment addition when I realized I had no idea how the old man was going to convince Mordreth to talk to him. It since became a crucial element of the book
- - There is one scene that I had written ahead of time, but when I got to it, I ended up writing completely differently. Funny how that happens. Part of the reason it was different was the addition of the old man, the other part was some back story I added to Queen Charlotte.
- - I think of Do You Take This Quest? as a lavender book, despite the fact that no lavender is ever mentioned.
- - Chapters 3 and 4 cover events that were originally the last chapter of Sew, It's a Quest.
I like it! For me, my book 2 was going to be book 3 and all of my Drake Elliot series were going to take place during one summer. Now the series will span at least 4 years.
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Bookania covers ... I have no idea how long. I've got stories planned for as far back as 300 years in the past and 60 or so years in the future. When I started planning it, was merely a collection of Stand-alones.
DeleteDoes this have spoilers? I skipped it because I avoid spoilers...okay, I TRY to, but they always find me. If it doesn't have spoilers I shall come back later and read it.
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Yes, holding ones book is very delightful. I've been carrying it and hugging it and flipping through it and beaming so wide my teeth are likely to fall out. Sadly, I cannot carry it about as it is too fat. I can to though but it won't fit into my bag with my survival kit.
Nope, I made sure this didn't have any spoilers. If I do post spoilers on my blog, I tend to color them white so that you have to highlight them to read them, and therefore it's harder to read them on accident.
DeleteSo, no, no spoilers, just a bunch of facts about the plotting/writing process of Do You Take This Quest?
Goody! I like when I can read non spoiler things. I like it, it has me excited for both books, and curious. Maybe I can ask for books for Christmas
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