Today marks day one of work on The Witches of Green Lake. Technically I guess it would be day two, since I wrote the opening scene months ago.
For now I’m just making notes on the plot, figuring out where the characters are in their lives, where in the timeline things are taking place. The transition from Werewolves of Green Lake to Vampires of Green Lake was the next day (or maybe that same day, I actually can’t remember), but the transition to this one is going to be a bit more time. I think six months have passed. Maybe more, maybe less, but it’s definitely not the next day.
I’m expanding the character base with this one, as I did in the last one, too, going from focusing strictly on David in book one to David and his cousin in book two. This book will have even more main characters, or at least the secondary characters will have more spotlight time.
Plus, I’m also figuring out how to incorporate what few details I had about The Ghosts of Green Lake, which was originally going to be the third book before I decided I needed to do Witches instead and just mix what little bit of plot I had from Ghosts in with it. It’s going to work out better this way in the end.
But I digress. Today’s focus was on plotting The Witches of Green Lake. Tomorrow I’ll do some more plotting and by this weekend I expect to have the entire plot sorted and ready for me to start the writing … on February 11th.