My guest blog on ‘Tips to Sequel Writing’ on Michelle Proulx’s blog. Check it out and take a look around her blog while you’re there.
Tips on Writing a Sequel
First, a big thank you to Michelle Proulx for letting me write a guest blog in honor of the July 31st debut of my second book, Legends of Windemere: Prodigy of Rainbow Tower. I think that covers the shameless self-promotion part of the program. Wait. Feel free to buy and readLegends of Windemere: Beginning of a Hero, so you’re ready for the sequel. There. That should do it.
So, you want to write a sequel. It’s a common malady for fiction authors. You love your characters and you have subplots that need more time to run their course. You have a new villain that you want to use. That infomercial at 3AM gave you the best idea for another story with the same characters. There’s also the chance that you had a series planned all along and this is the natural progression…
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Those were some great tips. I need to learn to outline a plot for my first book! lol I’ve always just written “free flow” which works well for short stories, but not novels. I shall have to work on that!
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Thanks and you’re welcome. You can write a novel with “free flow”. People do it. I’m a big planner, but I know many talented authors that free flow.
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I probably need half and half. Otherwise I will free flow right out of the novel!! Lol
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That’s always a risk. Maybe a basic idea and a few character concepts.
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That’s what I was thinking too 🙂
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