Working on Lady of the Horde

Tomorrow I’m tackling another chapter of Lady…!

This is going to be a long one, and I’m not nearly in the “zone” mode, so writing is currently a weekend thing (when I’m really feeling it I can easily switch into daily mode).

Since I wrote this outline some thirty years ago, in an episodic, pseudotelevision outline fashion, actually knowing what each chapter entails is currently a work in progress. 

So it’s always nice to know what the next chapter is actually going to accomplish.

I knew I was ready to write the book itself because I had nailed its basic shape, including the lead character, which this time is no question at all. Most of my stories feature a collection of characters in a tapestry. This time everything hinges on just one. The high concept will be a kind of death and resurrection, although even saying that doesn’t begin to explain what’s happening. It’s still complex. It’s still got plenty to say about the Danab Cycle itself, and a fitting conclusion to the opening trilogy (the fourth book is kind of epilogue), explaining once and for all why this particular era is worth worrying about first, rather than the origins that will conclude the saga. This is the “lived in” original trilogy Star Wars take, when humans and Danab are desperately trying to reconcile. 

So it’s exciting, and daunting, because somehow this is the most important of all the Danab Cycle stories I’ve yet written.