Greg van Eekhout ([info]gregvaneekhout) wrote,
2011-12-14 13:16:00

Book 2

Started Book 2 of The Osteomancer’s Son. I’ve never written a sequel or a continuation of a series, so this is new territory for me. I do have a basic understanding that I’ll need to pick up unresolved threads from the last book and raise the stakes and up the antes and goose the aunts and uncles or whatever. That last one might not be right. Like I said, this is new territory.

Here, I reveal some of my nefarious plans:

Crossposted from Greg van Eekhout. You can comment here or there.


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[info]jaylake

December 14 2011, 23:21:31 UTC 5 months ago

I have been quite surprised by the change in my technique and internal thought processes brought about by writing second and third books in series (or at least in continuity). You will be too, I am confident.

[info]gregvaneekhout

December 15 2011, 01:11:51 UTC 5 months ago

I'll look forward to seeing how things change unless the changes HORRIFY ME.

[info]jaylake

December 15 2011, 01:40:26 UTC 5 months ago

Oh, you will know horror...

Actually, I have some serious thoughts about this based on my experiences with the MAINSPRING and GREEN trilogies. Maybe I'll make them into a blog post in the next day or two, or if you want and think it might be helpful to you, we can correspond via email.

[info]gregvaneekhout

December 15 2011, 01:52:55 UTC 5 months ago

I'll look forward to your post (if you decide to write it), and I'm already thinking about some things I'd like to ask you.

[info]bogwitch64

December 14 2011, 23:52:23 UTC 5 months ago

Isn't it grand to start a new thing--all that possibility!

[info]gregvaneekhout

December 15 2011, 01:12:22 UTC 5 months ago

Yes! At the same time, it means that there's all this work to do.

[info]_stranger_here

December 15 2011, 00:36:02 UTC 5 months ago

I love the idea that "huge-ass mammoth" might make its way into all your books henceforth.

[info]gregvaneekhout

December 15 2011, 01:13:11 UTC 5 months ago

I can't believe it took me three books to remember mammoths. That was sloppy of me.

[info]affinity8

December 15 2011, 01:19:24 UTC 5 months ago

Good luck with the nefarious plans!

And huge congrats on turning in book 1 - very nice! A great milestone and yay you!

[info]gregvaneekhout

December 15 2011, 01:53:44 UTC 5 months ago

Thank you! Boy, it was a long time ago that you read my first stab at this book back at Starry Heaven.

[info]pingback_bot

December 16 2011, 16:08:58 UTC 5 months ago

[process] Writing the second (or third) book

User [info]jaylake referenced to your post from [process] Writing the second (or third) book saying: [...] Greg van Eekhout (who has one of the coolest names, ever) is launching into writing the sequel [...]
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