Series Writing:
Can you tell us a little bit about what it was like to write a series.
Writing Series: How To
Series Writing
So you’ve decided to write a series. There are so many things one needs to know.
- The books need to stand alone yet contain elements from the previous stories.
- Don’t rehash the repeated elements to such a degree that a reader will become bored.
- Continuity between books so important.
- Please fill in more key elements
Twelve Dancing Princess: the sixth out of twelve books is now on the shelves. Gotta Have Fayth
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A regal beauty with raven hair and piercing blue eyes, Fayth Graham is unwilling to parade herself in front of the wealthy Lords of England during the season. Seeking a means to dissuade any man wishing to wed her, she seeks a way to ruin herself for marriage. When she unexpectedly meets a man with sparkling gray eyes and an infectious grin, she decides this is the man who will keep her from agreeing to obey.
He returned from six months at sea, looking for a few nights of pleasure with a willing lass, but Jarret Kinsley got more than he bargained for when he met a beautiful debutant who responded to his kisses with a wild innocence that touched his heart. Yet the obstacles looming between them might rip them apart. Both had vowed never to marry, so when consequences of their dalliances got in the way, Jarret would have to choose between the life he’s always desired and the woman he loves more than life.
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It’s tricky. I thought that I could never top the Mary Boland character in Shanty Gold, so I didn’t try. Her daughter, Nellie Kelly,
lives in Boston in 1870 and suffers none of the tragic circumstances her mother encountered and ultimately triumphed over during the Irish Famine. So, I took the girl and her time and threw new challenges into her path. I think that, in the course of the novel, Nellie grows every bit as much as did her mother. Just in a different direction.
A good biography of all the characters is a must. When an author is immersed in the midst of writing, the nigglies of eye color, height, scars, and other identifications given them in the first book have a tendency to be forgotten.
I hadn’t intended to write a series, yet, the characters took over the book and pushed it to that end in the very last scene.
When I went back to edit, I’d left bread crumb clues for possible follow up books. I wrote them in a notebook I refer to when writing the ‘next’ book. Reading the one or two lines sparks the idea again, and allows me to check what characters I want to pull through the next story. As mentioned, don’t rehash the back story so much your readers put the story to the side. Give enough so they’ll go buy the prior book to catch up!
Last, but not least, never say never. When writing, you may think you are the architect of the story, but don’t tell your characters. They think they run the show.