The Council of Ten

Author's Note

Author’s Note

(Do not feel obliged to read this, it’s just a bit of a ramble about what’s coming next.)

Last night I finished ‘The Council of Ten’ and I just want to thank you guys once more for reading. I’m incredibly grateful! When I wrote the words ‘The End’ I was on a huge high, probably because I know it’s not the end yet and the beginning to something better. Let me explain.

‘The Council of Ten’ was originally going to be some strange horror called ‘The Masked Phantom’, or something to that effect. But I think it was nearer the end of my trip to Venice that I realized the story needed more and I’d unconsciously created characters while I wandered the streets. Thus, the story you read was born and I intended it to be a standalone book.

I guess I was wrong.

I intended the story to be another mystery. Something that would be solved and finished quite quickly. But I kept adding more and more and – well, to put it short, there will be three books in the series.

Three Books. A trilogy.

Also, I plan to write an extra fourth (maybe fifth) as prequels of sorts. (But I won’t mention them for now).

BUT! And I must stress this – I don’t know when I’ll be writing a sequel.

‘The Council of Ten’ is in desperate need of editing and believe it or not, there are so many more things I want to add. I had also planned the story to end differently, but found I just didn’t have enough in the rest of the story to back it up. (Does that make any sense?) Oh, and it was also going to be a horrible cliff hanger. But that was when I planned to write the sequel straight away. Before I realized everything else I wanted to add.

When I write, I don’t plan. I write what’s in my head and go with whatever that is. This results in plot holes and things that are underdeveloped, especially for the mystery I’m trying to create. You might not see it now but I do, and there are lots of things I want to add and change.

And I really need this story edited if I ever want to chase my dreams and make it a book.

So I think I’ll start editing ‘The Council of Ten’ over the summer. Whilst doing this, I don’t need Marco and Lena’s next adventures confusing me, so the sequel is going to hold.

If I do post the sequel, it will be, again, the first draft (wattpad helps me get things done. But means you get to see everything raw, sorry guys!) And my only concern is after editing the first book, I’ll be following on from the edited version and there may be things you don’t know about. I wasn’t going to post the edited story up, so I may have to kind of catch you all up on major events (maybe post the end scenes if they change).

With what I’m planning on doing, I think I can, the only thing you will probably miss out on is the whole solving the mystery/character developments. But you miss out on that anyway because I have so many random things that happen and never follow through with or never start talking about in the first place. Ah, it’s the first draft so please excuse me.

I’m not exactly sure where I’m going with this, I just wanted you all to know! Y’know? So, in short: the sequel will probably after edits and with the complications that are for me to handle. The author should make the readers comfortable in the story. Right – I’ll try.

Oh, and I’m not sure whether I’ll be able to stop writing altogether while I edit. So why don’t I entertain you with something new while Marco and Lena are refined?

I haven’t decided what I’m writing yet but have narrowed it down to a few potentials from the 50+ ideas list document on my laptop called ‘To Write’. Anyway, I’ll just make a list of a few possibilities.

A story about:

-          A ballet dancer and dreams

-          A canary and a girl

-          A plague and a man in a cape

-          A dream-catcher and a kingdom

That was hard. Seriously, I was about to go on for a whole page then. Anyway, I’m not sure which one, but I think one of those.

I probably won’t be posting until the end of June. Now I say probably but I’m in a total writing mood now and I don’t know if I can stay away.

(I can just see – two weeks later and everything I’ve said now has gone down the drain).

But anyway! Thanks so much for reading this long note about...about whatever I rambled about in that time. I’m expecting to be back at the end of June. But if I’m back before then, well, you’ll all get a nice surprise then won’t you?

Best Wishes,

~ TheTimelessClock