75K Words Completed

The novel is coming right along now. I hit 75K words today and the new start to the story is working much better. I have had to scrap only about 5K words so far and I have added so much more since.

With only 45K left to go in my 120K word goal, I feel like I am over the hill of the hardest part and now it’s just a matter if letting the rest settle in.

I have about 10K written at the end of the story which might get moved into book two. I have three books planned for this story.

Of course, I also got inspiration for a whole new story this week and I have been making notes about it on the side as I work on the main project. The thing about creating your world world to write in allows for you to pretty much create endless stories to go along with it.

One of the hardest parts of the process so far was the world building. I have a vague framework when I started writing and lot of what I wrote in the first half of the book was defining the world and its rules. Now that I have those settled enough, I can use them to dig into the story.

One of the things I need to create soon is a map of Tierra (that’s the name I gave to The Otherworld). When I first started writing, I thought maybe Tierra would be a parallel universe Earth but as I started expanding the story, the world changed into its own planet.

I can share a bit of the creation myth with you since it won’t give away any hints about the story:

In the beginning, there was only the Void.

Thoughtless and endless in its expanse.

There were no stars and no planets.

Life did not yet exist.

Then a stirring began deep within the Void.

The first to emerge was the Goddess Danu, The Mother of the Ever Flowing Waters of the Cauldron.

She was the water and the earth.

She gave form to the formless.

Then came with her consort, The God Beli, The Father of the Undying Flame.

He was the spark that ignited the heavens.

He breathed life into all things.

Their passion gave birth to the Universe.

Their love became the stars and their children were the planets that orbit them.

The first beings to walk on these worlds are known only as the Ancients.

They were the ones who founded the first civilizations.