It’s my fourth November participating in NaNoWriMo. This year I am writing a sequel. It’s fun to already know the characters and the world they inhabit. This is book three in my time travel series, The Time Well. I originally envisioned it as a trilogy, but all the content I had conceived ended up in book one. Then, all kinds of other ideas flooded in and now I am thinking about five books. I certainly hope I will be able to keep the the story fresh and unpredictable for that long.

Another problem I have with the series is that I have grown to love these characters. Unfortunately, in writing several books, I will have created too many and not left enough by the wayside. Stephen King says to kill your darlings, and the fact that I don’t want to lose any of these dear characters convinces me that one (or more) needs to go. But which one(s) and how? I have some serious reflection ahead.