Launched today; the background page and also summary page for the Chronicles of Enoch series.
What happens when you start what might be a trilogy but, as you start to write and, as the story develops, that to think the rest of it through, realise that the material you have, based on what you have written so far, is never going to fit into three books. No, it is not going to barely fill one, it is going to need five. We're talking Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter length here, easily. Scary right?
Not at all because this is the epic I was born to write! I have my Hegemony and Trinity trilogies and the more observant among you may have noticed that I have started some work on those already but Enoch has taken precedance in both my mind and creative efforts. The others will be coming but not until after at least I have written Book One : Darkness Within.
I don't know why I always think and plan so big. Hegemony and Trinity together will present SIX books and represent an epic Space Opera covering a period of five thousand years and focussing on, among others, the them of the inevitability and inescapability of Fate.
The Chronicles of Enoch will cover a period of close to thirteen thousand years, from the very very dawn of time until today, more or less and it's central topic will be that all stories are, in effect, the same story which is just told differently and somewhat altered with each telling.
I cannot, it would seem, write small. I have to write trilogies and now, it would seem, a quintet or quintology, whichever you prefer. Thing is, in addition to all of that, I am never going to be able to write in such as way as to cover everything which I could cover in either universe or tell the entire story as it deserves to be told. At least I don't think so. I am going to leave pieces untold. It is my sincerest and greatest hope that others may want to fill my gaps and expand my universes!
I even pulled a J.K. Rowling and wrote the last chapter of the Chronicles of Enoch last week. I know how the final and complete end will come. It is currently locked in a drawer, awaiting the rest of the books to be written. I've never done that before. It does feel incredible though, to know where I am actually going and now I have to just figure out how I am getting there. Curiously, I already know, more or less, the structure which is going to bring us to that final end.
That has never happened before.
Also my writing in this series so far is natural, flowing and taking me into areas and themes I had never touched before. Combat, battles (large and small scale), religion and belief, significant violence and the minds of the evil. Places I have never before explored but I am told I have done so well. I even had my main character Sable, fight and kill a giant! We're not done yet either. In the rest of the book we have at least two epic battles to come (one ancient and the other modern), a few fights (the biggest) and the development and conflict between the light and the dark; making the dark darker and the light perhaps a little less certain, who knows?
I do but I'm not going to just tell you and ruin it all now I am?
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