Tagged: As-Yet Untitled Ghost Novel #4

The Haunted Writing Cave

Dear reader, we haven’t been completely honest with you. On the blog, we regularly refer to the first book in our ghost series as As-Yet-Untitled Ghost Novel #1, and, well, that’s a bit inaccurate. It’s had a working title for quite a while, which we use in file names, and amongst our beta readers. It’s a pretty cool name, and it doesn’t fall into the “Sounds like a Nancy Drew Book” trap. But it also doesn’t fit nicely into a set of like-minded titles for the remainder of the series.

As we’ve mentioned in the past, we like for our series titles to coordinate. This bad boy is quite singular. We’ve batted ideas around, and came up with a matching bookend for the last in the series, but the two dudes in the middle are still waiting (im)patiently.

Naming our three earlier series was much easier. Maybe we should blame this very focused and specific form of writer’s block on the vengeful spirits of our less-fortunate characters.

A writing partner is someone who will hold your hand when things get scary. Or when you’re just unwinding and watching movies.

Mostly Not Failing to Plan

We did it! Or rather, Jen did it! The fourth and final book in the Ghost Series is fully synopsized (mostly). It has a beginning, a whole lotta middle, and an end that almost completely holds together if you don’t look at it too closely. We know the broad strokes, and that’s good enough for now.

You know how the weather forecast for tomorrow is a lot more reliable than the forecast for next Friday? It’s kind of like that. Some of the details toward the end are fuzzy, but it’s so far away it doesn’t really matter. By the time we get there we’ll have plenty of time to sharpen it up.

Vague as some of the details are, As-Yet-Untitled Ghost Novel #4 is shaping up to be a beast. The synopsis is 27 pages long, nearly twice what #3 came in at. We’ve started to wonder if maybe we’re dealing with a pentalogy instead of a quadrilogy. It could be that it’s too much story for one book, or it could just be that we gave a lot of thought to the ending, so we know more about it. Time will tell.

All together the 4 synopses are 40,000 words. That’s 75 single-spaced pages. It’s tempting to slap it into one file and call it a novella.

A writing partner is someone who doesn’t let you take the easy way out.