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Do I Continue Working with the Familiar or Start the Unfamiliar?
I get to choose if I should work in a familiar or unfamiliar setting.
For a long time, I really, really wanted to write a sci-fi epic.
Nothing stuck in my mind to drive it. As a pantser (one who writes by the seat of their pants), I never had that flash of, “yes, this!” hit me.
Until it did. One throw-away theory I read about the work of another creator sparked an idea for my work. And so, in September of 2015, I started what would become my Void Incursion sci-fi series.
I began to write. Then write some more. As a pantser, I went where the muse took me. Five 50+ page files of the story later, I began to break it down to book form — and started publishing in 2020.
During this process, though, I shifted gears and started planning the next series. My Forgotten Fodder sci-fi series was written from a chapter-by-chapter plan. I loved what this did for my creativity — and applied it to the creation of the final novel in Void Incursion.
Slower than desired, I worked my way through Check and Mate — the final Void Incursion novel. I had hoped to be publishing it by now — but instead, I will be running it through an edit this month before sending it to the editor.
