Hello again everyone. Hope you've all been doing well. As for me and Helen we've had a LOT on our plate lately to deal with. However, we're not abandoning our readers by any means.
We're still getting settled into our new home, which of course seems like a never-ending task, plus Helen is putting in for a number of jobs, especially in the realm of state, county, and city employment. And of course, I've been still contending with Social Security and trying to bring my now 2-year ongoing efforts to get approved for SSDI.
Oh, and did I mention Halloween is coming up? We're big fans and have plans which include FINALLY getting The Library of the Obscure YouTube channel fully up and running. I'm hoping to release a "Coming Soon" video (which I will feature here as well as elsewhere) very soon. Certainly, before Halloween, because I want to drop the first video either on the day before Halloween, or on that day. Haven't fully decided. We'll see what happens. I'm hoping to do some video recording this weekend so I can finish compiling everything into a coherent and hopefully entertaining format for you all. So, keep your eyes and ears open.
And it suddenly occurs to me that I've been going on about anything but what we were talking about in the last entry, haven't I?
(All of you...)
Okay... getting down to the business of Cassandra Elliott, her ghostly ancestors, and "The Door".
As I stated in my last entry, there will be a crossover between the final events of Cassandra and company, entering "The Door" where a huge final confrontation will be taking place, and another final confrontation that would be taking place back in the early 1800's with her ancestor Brandon Elliott when he was still alive.
Now, I've had "The Door" well under way (close to 70,000 words give or take) for several years, you'd think I was really close to finishing a 1st draft. Unfortunately, that is not the case. There's a lot of unfinished sections, and fragments that need to be either placed, or removed entirely. And the story is nowhere near complete. In fact, I'd already considered breaking it up into two volumes because so much is going on in this story, such as following up with Alex and Veronica's wedding, their finding of Rachel's baby at the end of "The Bridge" and how they deal with that situation. Cassandra and Julie's continuing romance, the mysterious Z and the offspring of the creature from the bridge, ghostly Brandon and Cassandra's other ghostly ancestors who appeared in "The Ship", to name a few. In short, way too much to try and wrap up neatly in just one volume.
Then there's Brandon's story set in the early 1800's, which was already going to be broken up into at least two volumes. Now I already have a complete 1st draft of volume 1. And I have a lot of concrete ideas and plans for Volume II. And there might be a Volume III, who knows?
So, in both cases, the stories are long and informative as well as eventually crossing over towards their respective endings. How to handle all this without being repetitious and kind of less surprising for the audiences?
Well, the idea I'm leaning towards is as follows. I have pretty solid ideas of where each of the respective first volumes are headed and how 'packed' they are. The same does not entirely hold true for the two second volumes of each timeline. So, I'm considering finishing and releasing Brandon's 1st volume (since I already have a finished 1st draft), and then releasing Cassandra's 1st volume (currently titled "The Door").
Then, what I'm thinking of is taking the 2nd half 0f both timelines and combing them into one volume where we bounce back and forth between the centuries and culminate in the crossover final confrontation.
I think this would be satisfying for all concerned without resulting in repetition of the same events in two entirely different books.
But of course, I'm just the author, or rather one of them. What do you readers think? Do you like this idea? Let us know in the comments section below. We'd love to hear what you all have to say.
Until next time, stay safe and keep writing and reading everyone.
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