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My WIP is about 50% done and I'm very comfortable with the main characters, the story and where everything is going.
Here's the problem: It's the first book in a series of three. I had decided I wanted these following books to continue within a few months of where the previous book ended. Each of the new books is about a different sibling in the family. That said, they all live in the same town and you learn more about the first couple's lives through the story in the second book, and so on.
So now I'm finding myself feeling very bogged down. I feel like I need to have all three books ironed out and that's not the way I work. I'm also seeing why people write a series and use a character that is a very minor character in the previous book, or choose a sibling that doesn't live in the same town, etc.
I have a lot of people I'm dealing with. I want to do them all justice, make them seem real and likable even if I don't go into too many details about them in this first book.
Am I taking on too much? Am I overthinking it?
Should I just move forward with this first book and figure the other two out when I'm done?
For those of you who have written a similar series or are working on something similar, what did you do?
TIA!
Here's the problem: It's the first book in a series of three. I had decided I wanted these following books to continue within a few months of where the previous book ended. Each of the new books is about a different sibling in the family. That said, they all live in the same town and you learn more about the first couple's lives through the story in the second book, and so on.
So now I'm finding myself feeling very bogged down. I feel like I need to have all three books ironed out and that's not the way I work. I'm also seeing why people write a series and use a character that is a very minor character in the previous book, or choose a sibling that doesn't live in the same town, etc.
I have a lot of people I'm dealing with. I want to do them all justice, make them seem real and likable even if I don't go into too many details about them in this first book.
Am I taking on too much? Am I overthinking it?
Should I just move forward with this first book and figure the other two out when I'm done?
For those of you who have written a similar series or are working on something similar, what did you do?
TIA!