On Saturday I went off to the Calgary Public Library for their Writer's Weekend. My CaRWA peeps would host an awesome talk but that really wasn't the highlight of the day.
I attended with a friend who had stopped writing and I've been nagging at work for a good year now to get back into. This winter she rejoined RWA and is coming with me to the next CaRWA meeting where she'll be rejoining. Yay!
We got to talking about books and characters. Book stealing characters. And I mentioned Migs and how his story was the only completed book I wrote last year. I wrote how it was the hardest book I've ever written as I wasn't entirely sure he was going to make it in the end. Then Shelley asked the all important, moment changing question: "Why don't you just make it a stand alone? Maybe there is no series." I had mentioned how he was to be the second book in a series I never did anything with.
The question rolled about like a loose marble in my head throughout the entire day. So I reopened Migs' story and as I read it now, almost a year later I realize that yes...yes his story very much can stand alone. I may need to slip in vital information that was supposed to come from the (now dead in the water) book one but the end goal is to now get Migs' story out there. I heart him too much to let him collect anymore dust.
2 comments:
I like reading stand alone books a lot. There's something to be said about getting closure from the one book.
There is but there also something to be said about series ideas that go nowhere - let them go.
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