Congrats! It's inspiring to see a project like Tales of Triverse to be completed. I also aspire to create a big series or even a cluster of intertwined series like a fictional multiverse. But I'm struggling with my second novel. :(
Porto is a beautiful city. As a Portuguese person, I can assure you that there's a lot of other interesting places to visit here: Braga, Guimarães, Viana do Castelo, Coimbra, Lisboa, Évora and many more.
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
It took me many years of working on other projects before attempting something like Triverse. What's proving tricky about your second novel?
And yes, Porto was wonderful. We'd love to go back to Portugal at some point - there are direct flights from Norwich to Faro now, so there's no excuse. :)
I'm having difficulties with one of the two POV characters. He's teleported to a bleak future version of the present. But I not sure how I can connect this subplot with the main plot.
Also I want to show his evolution from a very unconfident and unadventurous man with dormant psychic powers to a more active and confident one who can use his powers.
Perhaps you can find a way to connect the subplot and main plot thematically, even if they feel quite separate in terms of plot beats, characters and setting?
I aways think that writing stories is about solving a series of increasingly tricky puzzles. Very satisfying when you finally figure it out. :)
In life, I rarely process endings. Usually I'm weeks into the next thing before it hits me that some aspect of security or joy had to be left behind. Are you grieving?
Congratulations on completing your story. I look forward to sticking with a larger writing project to its end.
Yeah, we're rarely aware of doing something for the last time, only in retrospect. I've felt this especially acutely with my son growing up - the last time I carried him around on my shoulders, the last time I walked him to school and so on. It's hard to cherish it in the moment.
Ha! Last time we interacted you said… done by Xmas. I had a feeling… Merry Xmas
Mark, how dare you suggest that I'm consistently awful at predicting this stuff!
Who me… 😂
I started writing because I had a story in my head that needed to get out.
I kept writing because it allows me to experience my emotional self in ways I otherwise would not.
Maroli Tango may turn out to be my last work. If so, I am sure I will miss it.
Writing is absolutely part of how I process the real world. I start to get very grumpy if I'm not writing.
Congrats! It's inspiring to see a project like Tales of Triverse to be completed. I also aspire to create a big series or even a cluster of intertwined series like a fictional multiverse. But I'm struggling with my second novel. :(
Porto is a beautiful city. As a Portuguese person, I can assure you that there's a lot of other interesting places to visit here: Braga, Guimarães, Viana do Castelo, Coimbra, Lisboa, Évora and many more.
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
It took me many years of working on other projects before attempting something like Triverse. What's proving tricky about your second novel?
And yes, Porto was wonderful. We'd love to go back to Portugal at some point - there are direct flights from Norwich to Faro now, so there's no excuse. :)
I'm having difficulties with one of the two POV characters. He's teleported to a bleak future version of the present. But I not sure how I can connect this subplot with the main plot.
Also I want to show his evolution from a very unconfident and unadventurous man with dormant psychic powers to a more active and confident one who can use his powers.
Perhaps you can find a way to connect the subplot and main plot thematically, even if they feel quite separate in terms of plot beats, characters and setting?
I aways think that writing stories is about solving a series of increasingly tricky puzzles. Very satisfying when you finally figure it out. :)
Thanks for the tip. I need to brainstorm about it.
Yeah, I also feel that many times.
In life, I rarely process endings. Usually I'm weeks into the next thing before it hits me that some aspect of security or joy had to be left behind. Are you grieving?
Congratulations on completing your story. I look forward to sticking with a larger writing project to its end.
Yeah, we're rarely aware of doing something for the last time, only in retrospect. I've felt this especially acutely with my son growing up - the last time I carried him around on my shoulders, the last time I walked him to school and so on. It's hard to cherish it in the moment.
Clarke, a character in my serial, muses on this in a chapter from January 2023, as it happens: https://open.substack.com/pub/simonkjones/p/67-liaisons?r=3rwg&selection=f67ba19b-e971-406c-94c7-69e925dd4a74&utm_campaign=post-share-selection&utm_medium=web&aspectRatio=instagram&textColor=%23ffffff&bgImage=true