In my last post I wrote how I took my story idea and as I mapped everything out it looked like I had 2-3 extra stories. Well, to put it bluntly, after spending more time looking at everything, I ended up with story summaries for 11 unique stories. Of these, based on how they fit in the timeline I see 4 as smaller short stories/novellas and 7 main novels. 1 of the short stories is likely completely bonus material, and even the 3 more important ones are easily supplementary to the main storyline.
Let’s now take a look at what I’ve deemed the main storyline. Here I have 7 stories which include my original story split as a duology and then 5 stories that provide all of the backstory. I could probably combine stories 1 and 2 into a single book with some creative flashbacks and organization which would leave me with a nice trilogy for the early days of my timeline. That still leaves me with a fairly important standalone 4th book and then my original duology at 5 and 6.
Obviously as I get further into the outlining and writing, things may change. I may be able to cover some of the historic material in flashbacks which could help condense things further. And of course this also implies that I’m able to even get the first book published and successful.
To that end, I think my plan right now is to start on my original story - currently designed as a duology - and go from there. If I can manage to get that story out, and there’s interest, then I can go back and write the rest of the series.
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