Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Finished the Draft of my Fourth Book!

 I'm so excited to announce that I finished The Trinitas! It is done with the drafting process and is ready for revisions. Once I have revised the book a few times, I will write four final scenes to begin each part of the three-part novel, plus a prologue. I wait to write these scenes until the book is finished so that they will more accurately foreshadow what is to come in the next part of the book. These four scenes are the hardest writing I have to do in the entire books that I write, so I save them for the end. 

The Trinitas is the climactic conclusion to the four-part quadrilogy I've been writing for the past decade. The series is called Fragments of Alchemy. It is a Middle Grade / Young Adult urban fantasy. The Fragments of Alchemy series is also the origin story for the high fantasy series that I will start writing once I am officially done with the Trinitas. I have been world building for these series I will now be able to write for quite some time. Some of the ideas I will incorporate into future books will include ideas I had when I was in middle school dreaming up my own books. I'm so excited to finally be thinking ahead to these wonderful books I will be able to write.

Wish me luck in the revision process! I usually start my revisions with a focus on setting descriptions. I know this is one area of my writing that I usually skimp on when I'm drafting because I am always so much more focused on what my characters are saying and doing than where they are. So I usually add quite a lot of detail in my early revisions of a book. It is usually lots of fun.

One other thing I am doing right now is posting chapters of the first book in the Fragments of Alchemy series, over on WattPad. Check me out there if you are interested in getting a sneak peak at my Urban Fantasy series.  Here is the link: https://www.wattpad.com/user/ACSutliff