We've timed our posts on the SFA website so that the ending to the first book will be posted on 8/6/08. And, as you might have heard from JLY's post, we're planning on starting the second book and posting the first scene by 8/8/08. Hopefully this isn't too ambitious, considering JLY and I have spent the last few weeks editing and polishing Book 1, instead of starting Book 2...
At any rate, the beginning of Book 2 also coincides with the end of copious amounts of free time-- JLY is off to get some more book-learnin', I'm headed back into the working world, and even KM Ricker is returning to the trenches of art school.) So, we'll be returning to once-a-week updates that will most likely take place on Fridays.
Even though starting the second book is a little daunting from this side of it, there's something exhilaratingly about standing at the edge of this new book. Writing the end of the first book was a lot of tying up loose ends and pulling the plot together. There wasn't too much room for random scenes or whimsical asides, and for that matter, the story was mostly in place so we didn't even need to do that much creating. It was mostly just finishing out the road map that we had put in place.
But! Now that we're starting the second book, it feels like there's nothing but time and freedom. There are a lot of fun questions to be asked and answered. How has summer changed each of the adventurers? Will people relate the same way as they did before? Yes, we've got an outline for where the plot is going, but there's much more freedom than we've been used to operating under.
The feeling of starting over with a new book, is, I suppose, one of possibilities. And what I love about SFA is that these possibilities are everywhere. It's fun to try to figure out which possibilities to run with, and where to take them. Well, hopefully by 8/8/08, we'll all know where these possibilities lead.
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KL
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