There is always a next project…
In fact there are usually 2 or 3 that I am working at some stage. I like to have a long-term project, my epic so to speak that I’m working on in my mind and adding bits and pieces to make it a rich vibrant world one day. Then there is usually the practical project. That’s the book closest to actually going out the door to a publisher, and then there is the hot new idea that I want to write.
That’s the “Next”. The next is what encourages me to keep going, and often what motivates me to push through the uncomfortable editing phase of a project. I can’t very well devote my attention to the next until I have a project finished.
Today I’m thinking a lot about the Next project and I’m thinking it will be the sequel to For Liberty… I have never planned to make that project a series, but there is a second story, a partial continuation that is begging to be told. I want to follow up some of the loose ends, and weave the human story about the price our country pays for it’s Liberty a little deeper. This has been a backburner project for a few years now, and I think it’s going to move up to the forefront for a while. With Hakomi complete, and with the edits nearing completion of For Liberty… it seems like the perfect time to rough that project in.
More to come.
-k
