One of the things that I haven’t really had the chance to talk about is how much I know about the universe I’m working in as it pertains to Tellest.\u00a0 I’ve been writing the novels since I was 17, and a lot of what my audience reads is something that’s been written twice.\u00a0 It wasn’t until I finished writing the third book in my series (the first time) that I decided my writing had evolved far beyond what it had started out as.\u00a0 So many things changed – but I was still writing the same baseline stories.<\/p>\n
Several times over the course of the books, I’ve been able to surprise myself from a narrative standpoint.\u00a0 Characters who were evil in the original books ended up on the other side of the playing field.\u00a0 People who had small parts were embellished, and others were completely stripped from the book altogether.\u00a0 And then, of course, there’s the whole point of the series getting down to brass tacks right away this time.\u00a0 In the original trilogy, you learned very slowly of the superhero powers that each of the characters had.\u00a0 In this one, you learn it all right from the get go.<\/p>\n
A lot of the time, that change in the narrative comes as a surprise, even to me.\u00a0 Whenever that happens, I’m invigorated by the potential.\u00a0 It’s scary, because you’re going off track from what you anticipated, but I’ve always been of the mind that you let the story dictate itself – you’re just<\/em> the writer.\u00a0 On the other side of things, it’s absolutely exciting.\u00a0 When you’re writing a story you know without a fault, some of the scenes can tend to drag on.\u00a0 You’re not doing anything new<\/strong>.\u00a0 It’s been done before, and you’re not pushing boundaries.\u00a0 But when you manage to surprise even yourself, you know you’re onto something good.<\/p>\n Whenever these things happen, I tend to try and make sure there is potential for readers to catch it before it actually happens.\u00a0 This has happened twice before in my series… once in each book.\u00a0 As time goes on, I’m sure people are going to look out for them like I’m the M. Night Shymalan of ancient superhero novels.\u00a0 Eventually I’m going to have to think up even bigger surprises.<\/p>\n Side note: Shymalan is actually a pretty nice guy if the conversations I’ve had with him are genuine.<\/em><\/p>\n For now, I have to wrap myself in the twist.\u00a0 The payoff has to be as powerful as it was before, and I think in this case, it will be even greater.\u00a0 And then of course there’s the post-climax reveal that I was already intending on writing…<\/p>\n But that’s a story for March, I suppose.\u00a0 Not too far away now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the things that I haven’t really had the chance to talk about is how much I know about the universe I’m working in as it pertains to Tellest.\u00a0 I’ve been writing the novels since I was 17, and a lot of what my audience reads is something that’s been written twice.\u00a0 It wasn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1UVey-twist","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}