Our Heads Are Haunted Now

The fancy new whiteboard now houses our Ghosts, Book 4 rainbow. Barely — it flows across both sides already and we have a lot left to add. (hooboy!)

Not only are we fleshing out the fourth and final volume, but we’re also creating a text synopsis of Book 2 simultaneously. Which puts some of Book 3 in the mix as well, because we have to keep in mind how events span that interval.

We’ve crammed at least three novels’ worth of ghosts into our brains, is what we’re saying. It’s really all four, although Book 1 hasn’t come up too much recently.

But, this is exactly why we wanted to handle all the outlining and storyboarding and other pre-writing for the entire series up front. It’s hard work, but it’ll spare us from getting halfway through the fourth book and wishing we’d done a bunch of things differently in the earlier ones. In other words, it will save us from needing to rewrite the whole tetralogy. Our revisions will be focused on how to sharpen up the telling, not trying to get the shape of the tale itself.

A writing partner is someone who’s willing to let their skull become a haunted house so you don’t have to face an army of spooks all by yourself.