Bigger and better

With a sequel now well over the halfway mark, my plans for making the second book longer than the first is going very nicely. The first book UNISON will be approximately 199 A5 pages, 199! GGRRR

The second book is only 10,000 words short of the first and there's still a lot planned for it. The original concept of the book would have been about the same length, on rough estimate, but because of my sudden idea for a third and final story in the series, or at least final in this arc of the universe's history, I am extending it to welcome in the events that occur in the third. It's exciting to think of what new characters or concepts will be in the third story.

#SPOILER ALERT# Unfortunately many of the characters have been removed from the limelight along with the focus on the futuristic technology from the first book to help the transition from UNISON's main organisation to the much smaller neo-military 'Academy' as well as a shift in focus from Sci-fi to Fantasy. #SPOILER END#

The good thing about having the first book written and out of the way is that the basic themes, characters and settings have been introduced and explained. I am feeling much more freedom with the second book so I can turn my attention to the future of the story and what would make it exciting as I write it.

Now I have more exciting characters in my second book, plus the ones that I enjoyed the most from the first, which I have really enjoyed bringing together. This sequel revolves mainly around the new military division that are being trained to master the mystical energy that the Hierarchy possess. These ARC's are under the direct command of the main character from the first book, Jason Rider, and puts humanity on a more level playing field with their enemies.

I love the action scenes of my books, though with my imagination I insist on them featuring odd and outrageous movements so its quite tricky to write it and keep the pace going. I'm not saying I have actually managed to do it effectively though.  In the second book I have thrown technology to the wall and focused on the battles from a fantasy perspective and more often than not I've scaled down the scope of war to just two or three people battling in intimate locations. It's definately much better than the first book in that sense as the full potential of my characters was only revealed at the very end, whereas in this current story I can keep the quality of scenes to the standard the first book ended on but work on making it better!

Hopefully this book, when finished, will have a chance at being brought to stores like the first was, if not I can always self-publish. With me its not about literary perfection, which is just a shameful way of admitting I don't think I'm a technically gifted writer, all I care about is bringing an interesting new story to people, something that you will enjoy. Hopefully, if anyone looking at this blog comes across my first book, due for release very soon now, you will like it for that reason and want to move on the second; whatever format it is released in.

Much Love,
Hoping You Are Well :D
L.H