Demesnedenoir
Myth Weaver
If story = plot... not so much, heh heh. Don’t get me wrong, I see the point.
“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
- Frank Herbert
I’ve never understood how other writers can look at a story they haven’t completed and know how many books it’ll take.
I’ve seen and heard so many people say their current WIP is going to be a trilogy, or whatever number. How can they know? You learn so much about your characters and plots simply by writing them. Add the shiny, new next story idea into the mix and you have a solid recipe for ending one and moving on. Then there are those ideas which, once executed, can turn into so much more.
You might simply focus on telling one part of a story to the best of your ability & not worry about how many books it’d take for a series. You’ll stop where you’ll stop. The story has no true ending anyway. There could always be more.
But, yes. That’s a good example, where the short from a challenge here turned into a full novel with multiple plot lines, a vast character cast, etc. Wasn’t intended that way from the get go. I’m not planning anything beyond for this story, but who knows? I’ll cross that bridge when the time comes.
Yours. Iron Pen, I believe it was called.Which challenge/short story led to the novel?
Yours. Iron Pen, I believe it was called.
Yours. Iron Pen, I believe it was called.
No. That one was an experiment, and I’ve done nothing with it since.'Beasts of Beleau?" (sp?) werewolf story?
How do you decide if a story is one volume or two or five or ten? I can see it could be arbitrary.