Editor person called and they won’t be ready for today’s session. Since they’re out of town Thursday and Friday, we’re meeting on Saturday afternoon this week. That means no updates on the fourth draft, version two until then.
That’s not to say nothing is going on. I’ve been working on the outline and character sketches for the second book Again, another forward looking visualization. Sure, they’ll want part II! Why not? Selling part I is a forgone conclusion. Right? Right?????
The second book ( I’m still hashing out possible titles) will involve all the key characters from the first one, plus a brand new character, new guy. I see new guy as a sidekick for my hero, because every great hero has a sidekick.
The sidekick has to complement the hero, but also serve as a ready source of conflict. I need enough tension between hero and sidekick that it’s interesting, but not so much that it leads to one of them sleeping with the fishes. New guy needs a level of sophistication but he has to be able to kick butt.
There’s a lot of great sidekicks out there, and I want mine to be up to snuff, so I’m taking my time developing him, using some of the down time to research a number of far reaching topics such as the history of the Philippines, US Special Forces, star based sea navigation and the swallows of San Juan Capistrano.
On other fronts, it looks like my wife, the professor and myself are going to meet up for dinner this Friday. The professor is just that, a full tenured doctor of English at a major university. Long before editor person, the professor suffered through my writing, when I was a student back in college. I want to emphasize the suffering part. Despite this, the professor agreed to give me some feedback on the screenplay I wrote this past August. Any comments are good and I’m looking forward to hearing what they have to say.
I have a separate plan and set of goals for the screenplay – but that’s all for now.