It’s Friday!
And on Friday’s, I’ll be telling you:
What I’m working on:
Today that’s been continuing to write Part 2 of the second book in The Wall of Night series, working title The Gathering of the Lost. Writing in this case includes a mix of revising the first draft and writing in new material, driven by considerations such as:
- do all these plot threads tie together in a consistent way?
- are the characters evolving in the way I envisioned when first setting out to write the story arc.
In my experience, the story arc always remains true as the book evolves, but there can be a LOT of shifting around of characters and plot within that framework … (just to make that more appropriate, there are shapeshifters in this book 🙂 )
What I’m Reading:
At the moment that’s Trudi Canavan’s The Ambassador’s Mission, the first in the series that is sequel to her Black Magician Trilogy. This new trilogy, set in the same world and with some of the same characters, is called the Traitor Spy Trilogy.
I have only just started but am looking forward to the read and—I hope—will get to interview Trudi on air later this month.
Enjoy your weekend!
I’ve never read any Trudi Canavan – I’ll be very intersted to hear how you find her books. In general, will you be blogging mini-reviews (or maxi-!) of the books you read?
Hey Joff,
I’ll be sure to let you know how I find The Ambassador’s Mission: I am definitely enjoying it so far.
I won’t be doing reviews as such, either mini or maxi, especially not where I will be doing a radio interview with the writer. The purpose of the interview is so listeners find out more about the writer and their work—through my skilfully-put questions, of course!—rather than interposing my opinion. And I hope to be doing author interviews on this blog as well, so will be sticking to that approach for those.
But one thing I plan to do is talk about books I have loved as well as influences on my writing so hope that you will find something there of interest.