The Fourth

What am I doing these days? I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that the draft of The Drop: Season Three is complete. Now I’m working on Season Four. I’m already written over five thousand words and liking the variety of this story compared to the first three books - er, seasons. Even though each book is based on the same concept, I’m trying to make them different enough to keep readers going through the series. If you’ve read the first two books, you know they’re about a survival contest on an unexplored alien planet. I could repeat the exact same formula each time, with different contestants, but I’m not sure people would stick around for ten seasons of that. I did throw in a backstory about the people on Earth running the show so there’s some sense of consistency between the seasons. In the third book I tried some different themes and a surprise ending, while in this book I have a surprise beginning and a completely different focus about the players. It’s fun to write this one and as always, I hope it turns out well. I’ll probably pause the writing of it in a few weeks so I can edit Season Three and publish it, but for now I’ll just keep writing.