Third Act

I’m moving into the third act of my draft of the sequel to First. Even though last week I talked about working without a net, I realized yesterday I do need to do just a skosh of planning on how this ends up. I pretty much need to know the destination, but how I get there is the part without a net. I have some ideas, of course, but solidifying a few twists will aid my efforts, because other twists will show up along the way as I write the characters. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m pleased with how this book is going and already thinking of ways to shore it up with some revisions early in the story. What’ll actually happen is that once I finish the draft, it’s going into a virtual drawer for a few months while I work on something else. I think my next project will be to edit Assignment Day once more and get it ready for publication in the first half of 2025, assuming all the economics work out.