Thread: What are your plans?

I've planned a seven book series. What I'm wondering is the level of love people have put into a single book or twenty.

Do you get as giddy as I do over the long-term implications? Do you wonder how people will react when they "find out" what is going on?

I'm not asking for the specifics. No one has to give up their secrets. I'm just asking about the mood.

When you have it all planned out, do you rub your hands together and say: "Wait until they read this!"?

Only seven? lol
My original story was a chronological auto biography from WW2 to present day. When I finally began writing it WW2 took up one book and I found that I'd written about half of the second, along with the outline of the third. This takes me all the way up to 1949!!!

Again for me, I toyed with completing the second book and releasing that first, mainly because I feel that it has a much better story. Then release the first book as a sort of prequel, still debating that idea.
Have convinced myself that those who enjoy my writing will automatically want more of the same, Harry Potter syndrome springs to mind.

Bottom line is if your comfortable with it then go for it!
Me, I'm way to cynical to believe that it will go viral straight away, more likely that when I'm pushing up the daisies someone will find it, turn it into a tv mini series followed by the big screen films and then it will take off leaving all the profits for the scams, [my kids!].

When I finally began writing it WW2 took up one book and I found that I'd written about half of the second, along with the outline of the third. This takes me all the way up to 1949!!!

Hey DuKane, you're not rewriting Churchill's diaries are you?

My plans a little less ambitious at the moment. I'd settle for a first publication (paper, not web-based) of a short story, maybe even selling one for some actual real green paper money, maybe do an anthology of shorts before turning my attentions to something longer.

[QUOTE=Bilston Blue;1443471]Hey DuKane, you're not rewriting Churchill's diaries are you?

Damn it, you sussed, this was going to be my literary mantlepeice! [-o<
No just the more I wrote the more I didn't want to leave parts out, I wanted to be chronologically accurate and mine doesn't start until after the end of the phoney war in 1940! God knows how long it would have been if I hadn't cut out the original beginning which was 1938.

Just about everything I conceive of is intended to be one novel. I like the idea of telling one story then moving on to something else. I'm not adverse to reading multi-volume works, and maybe one day I'll write something that I feel is suited for that format, but for right now I find that I personally like writing self-contained stories better.

I do have one novel that I'm working on that I've thought might one day merit a second or third installment, but it more than likely won't be a direct chronological sequel or chapter. It will take place in the same universe as the original work, and involve some of the same elements, but the characters, situations, and settings will all likely be completely different. And I'm writing it as though it's a single work... I guess that might work against me if I ever do decide to do a sequel, as I might be somewhat constrained by the events I've already laid out.

I actually have a different problem, my book was intended to be just one volume but as it turns out its getting really large. I am now thinking of dividing it into 2 parts.

Self-publish a collection of 10 longish (5k+) short stories; maybe send one or two out for publication.