How Old Did You Say You Are?

The Ghost series is shaping up to be a generations-spanning saga. That’s a fair description of most of what happens in the Writing Cave, so we’re used to setting up timelines that show when all our characters are born and (often) when they die.

What is a little different this time is that we’re starting off with the full knowledge that what we’re building is a generations-spanning saga, so our pre-writing process is being applied to the whole series. We mentioned already that picking up Book 2 immediately revealed unresolved questions in our “exhaustive” plotting of Book 1. That hasn’t really stopped. Book 2 planning is well along at this point, but today there was yet another example of something that we thought was already settled showing itself to be up in the air.

It’s those birth and death dates this time. Not all of them (whew!) but a few, and one character in particular whose age matters to the plot.

This made us glad that we are planning out the whole series up front, of course. If we had written Book 1, it would be a lot more work to adjust someone’s age. And if we’d published it, then we’d be stuck.

A writing partner is someone who ages like fine wine. (And helps you organize your multigenerational epic, too.)