It is high time I met up with this fellow again.
It's been over a year since I published Ossuary, the first Moses Knopff novella. I really enjoyed writing it - it was the first time I set myself a writing plan with a minimum number of words per chapter. The entire scope of the piece was planned out before I started, which was something I had never tried before.
Up until that I had always worked organically. However, the net outcome of that approach is about 100 000 words of unfinished stories and novels. As an experiment, the rough outline still left a lot of room for organic growth which is still very important to me.
I just needed that extra bit of structure to make it all happen.
The story continues in Columbarium. It's mainly mapped out, but I just can't seem to start it. It's the terror I always feel before diving into a writing project. I love to write, but something scares me about the process.
At least I love my characters. Moses and Jane start off this latest tale at loggerheads. We learn more about Jane's past, and be prepared for a strange psudo-scientific artifact with a supernatural bent.
Wish me luck, for I must descend again into that pool of words in which we all swim.
