It's Monday. It's a new year... two have passed, in fact, since last I posted here. Lot's of things happened between last post and this, and I won't try to update anything. This is a new post. Period. I'm just glad to be back.Keeping in theme with my last post of two years ago, I have managed to get through the weeds of figuring out how to get my characters off the mountain, and into the new universe, and the continent and magic of Tamarast. I've been doing a lot of thinking on this and, while watching a " twilight" marathon on FX yesterday afternoon it came to me quite suddenly. The solution even allows me to avoid the whole "returning to the Consolidation" and all the plot point nightmares that would undoubtedly have gendered.
The second book in my proposed trilogy would have been the "Return to the Consolidation," and would have been boring beyond belief... to me--if I'd have had to write that block of nonsense the story I have in my head would never get finished. This new solution saves me the effort of writing something that would have ultimately been a nightmare, and save readers the time and disappointment that RttC would have been. By avoiding RttC, I'll get to keep my readers.
I've managed, as well, to figure out why my group of Muslims were so intent on destroying the project, stranding my pilgrims and them 11,000 years in the past. As it turned out the solution was quite simple. Now, I don't have to spend an entire novel in the Appalachians with Tel and Mina and the rest of my mountain community. Elias and his crew can do their damage and Tel can save his father, and the solution can be part of the whole beginning of what I've been calling "Rabbit On The Mountain". Discussed, at least, as part of setting the stage for what follows. "Rabbit on the Mountain" doesn't have to be a full length novel and "Return to the Consolidation" doesn't have to written at all.
Hooray, for me. Now I can focus solely on the getting to Tamarast and the wars that follow.
