1/4/2024 0 Comments Tv tropes hyperspaces evilThere are different versions of the story where she ends up with one, two, or three wands. When I first wrote Alexandra's Ozark quest, she had to do the whole thing without a wand. I won't enumerate all the different iterations and revisions, but literally everything in the Ozark sequence was rewritten multiple times. Some of you speculated about the things that were late changes or additions in book five. But I don't have the road that leads past all those milestones, and sometimes forcing my way to one of them is like, well, trying to move a road. I have a whole series of them for Alexandra's entire saga, like individual milestones. I'm one of those writers who has numerous scenes vividly detailed in my head - I know what I want to happen and how I want to write them. Fitting plot points together when you organize like I do can be kind of like putting together a jigsaw puzzle where half the pieces are missing. More often, in order to make the things I had planned work, I had to change other things. Occasionally I have had a new and better (or at least different) idea. Not every single thing I've planned has happened according to my original plan. (Unlike Rowling, I haven't actually written it yet, but it's mostly plotted out in my head.) I have always known who lives, who dies, and how the series will end, right down to the final chapter. In fact, most of the major things that happen in the series have been planned since book one. I kind of hesitate to give a look behind the scenes at all the things I changed, because it might damage my image as a master plotter who always knows exactly where the story is going and how to get there, and who planned every brilliant twist all along. There are significant plot arcs that were dropped, and others that were added. I went back and forth with my betas, sometimes over and over on a few points. My initial burst of productivity in the months following the conclusion of AQATSA was followed by years of almost no writing, until last year, when I finally got in gear again. That's taking into account many months in which not a single word was written, and many more months where I opened up the draft, managed to tweak a few sentences, and then closed it again. The writing process and the cutting room floorĪlexandra Quick and the World Away took me over seven years to write. At the same time, Alexandra Quick is literally a labor of love, and no one will feel worse than me if I never finish the series.īut let's talk about this book, now that it's out there in its completed form. (I addressed that a long time ago) Yes, I do want to write (and publish) original novels. I've been asked more than once why I don't write something original (working on it), and why I don't try to publish AQ, maybe after stripping it of its Harry Potter provenance. ![]() Rereading that post, it's kind of funny how much has changed and how much hasn't.įinishing Alexandra Quick and the World Away felt. ![]() It's been eight years since my last end-of-book Author's notes. A lovely likeness, though it's probably what Alex sees in her magic mirror.
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