Plans change again

They aways change. I should never plan anything, because it never happens! 

Anyway, so remember I said I was writing on Ben's second book? Well, I was. Got into it, figured this fit more with the first book, continued writing... and ended it. Not where I'd planned on ending it, but where long before. So I was there with 13K words... and now it's become chapter ten to thirteen of More Than Friends. 

This means Ben's first book is done at 46K! \o/ 

As for the ending I had planned... I think I'll make that into a little holiday novelette. And change POV between two different characters, as important stuff happens to them on holiday. 

First though, now I'm done with MTF, I'm going to go through More Than Anything. Before I can start More Than Life, Glenn's book, I need to go through More Than Words. This because I need to get into Glenn's head, so I have to be clear on exactly how he acted through that book. 

Before I start writing this, however, I shall finish Wounded Souls. I've got edits for it, some new scenes I need to write, and I think I'm ready for it now. After that, time to rewrite Lost Souls to fit with the new canon of WS. I'm so ready to be done with those two books now. They've been WIPs since autumn 2014! I know, mental right? They're getting done now, no matter what! 

Oh! And also... I think I've changed my mind about the More series. See that cover there? Yeah, I think it's going to say MTA 4 instead. Because I'm also thinking about putting both of Leo's novella together into one novel, so that'll make MTA 3. Maybe the shorter side-stories will have the title of the novels they're from, instead. Such as No Right Words having MTW for a series title. Hmmm. Pondering this. I'll get back to this in a future post. 

Plans change

Two posts ago, I wrote that after Ben's book I'd start Glenn's. Well, I'm one little scene from ending Ben's book... and it doesn't end how I'd originally planned. There's months to go in the story until the original ending I had planned. 

Guess what that means? I have to write Ben's second book before Glenn's first. And then Ben's third book after Glenn (which was supposed to be his second!). 

The timeline's all muddled between the books by now, which is why the new books only end up as novellas instead of novels. I don't plan my books much, so a lot of things happen during them that has an impact on future events and characters, so I have to write in order. 

More Than Anything starts before all other books, and ends after all of them. More Than Words ends half a year before MTA. More Than Enough takes place after MTW, as does Not Close Enough. But both of these happen before the end of MTA. This is also the case with More Than Friends. It follows after NCE, but also ends before MTA. Glenn's book will start after the end of MTA, but I need stuff to happen to Ben before that. 

So he gets his second novella right after I finish the first. And Glenn, he's just got to wait a little bit more. 

I've got three novellas written now (well, almost. Just that one scene to go from Ben's POV to finish off the third!). I'm all out of cover models. What to do for the new novella featuring Ben? I haven't got another stock photo of the same guy, nor do I have one for Tarjei. Arrrgh. Got to think of something.