The other night my husband came home to find me sitting in the living room in complete silence.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"Writing," I said. You’d think he’d know by now. To be fair, sometimes the process is hard to spot.
I hadn’t heard the word ideating until I saw this image but it captures one part of the process.
I’ve had a new series building in my imagination for a while. Sitting quietly is one way of shuffling the pieces around before I put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard.
Book one in this new series is shaping up now but I’m not ready to discuss particulars. I’m kind of superstitious that way. Let’s just say I’m moving between the researching, thinking, and writing stages at present.
When the books are more formed I’ll share this exciting new world with you.
The making of a series - 🎁 how it came together
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In the meantime, the fourth and final book in the Lighthouses of Devmaer series is almost finished. Well my part of it is almost finished anyway. After I complete my latest soup-to-nuts revision, it will be sent to beta readers before the editing process starts.
As I reach the end of the series, I’ve been looking back at the pin board that helped me visualize the fantasy world. It changed over time but currently looks like this:
Then there were times when I needed images just to keep track of the many characters in the series of books and novellas so I set up boards in Pinterest to help with visualization.
I also created an organization chart to clarify relationships of the main players from the continent country of Senne:
Writing this series has been a great adventure. I hope you have enjoyed the ride!