What would you do if you wrote 100k words for your next installment only to find that you have a better story to tell? The easier answer is to finish the current book and then use the idea for the next.
That is not what I am about to do… don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to throw away 50 chapters of action packed adventure. I might use it down the road in another story, maybe a Marathon Torres Files style novel. maybe morph them into other installments.
I’m going to start over though. Start fresh and go with the new idea. It’s more CIA conspiracy than action and adventure. It’s more Marathon than what I wrote.
Sometimes a writer gets lost in the narrative and it goes in an unintended direction. I’ve set myself back a few months, but ultimately I will have a much for focused narrative with some overarching themes that really drive the characters.
Hopefully I’ll have more to share soon. Maybe one day the lost Marathon stories will see the light of day, maybe they shouldn’t.
‘till next time!
Cheers!
Keith E. Burns 