It Was The Middle One

We went out to dinner again.

Loyal readers probably see where this is going — we dined out in character so we could debug some of the world-building that’s happening for the third music novel. A lot of the conversation revolved around whether or not we might be actively trying to kill each other.

As we mentioned last week, it’s a different trilogy that’s been keeping us quite busy in the writing cave. So what do we do on date night? We work. (And chow down on moussaka and kolokythokeftedes of course. Yum!)

It hasn’t been easy to lock down the plot of the next music novel. What enabled things to start flowing was a decision about the chronology. It turns out we’ve written volumes one and three. By putting this one in between, several obstacles were cleared away and a strong thematic connection back to book one presented itself. Now we have a pretty clear image of our new cast members and a basic framework of the incidents that get the plot rolling.

Sometimes a writing partner is someone to go out to dinner with, and then pretend they’re someone else.