{"id":6888,"date":"2020-05-01T16:54:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T22:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielawolfe.com\/tg\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=6888"},"modified":"2020-07-16T20:09:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T02:09:05","slug":"what-comes-next","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/danielawolfe.com\/tg\/blog\/what-comes-next\/","title":{"rendered":"What comes next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <em>The Fall of Kruhl<\/em> draws nearer to its climax, I&#8217;ve been looking at my options, thinking about what story I&#8217;d like to serialize next. Those who follow my blogs know I&#8217;ve talked about some projects in the past. There&#8217;s <em>A Rock &amp; A Hard Place,\u00a0<\/em>my second entry in Morpheus&#8217;s Twisted Universe, there&#8217;s <em>Legend of Morgana: Revenge of a Spellbinder<\/em>, the prequel to my <em>Ragnarok Rising Trilogy<\/em>, there&#8217;s always <em>Onryo&#8217;s Revenge<\/em> and <em>Shadow of Arkana<\/em>, the third and fourth entries in my Exemplar Universe respectively, but there&#8217;s also another option I&#8217;ve resisted serializing for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>As much as I&#8217;d love to work on any of these stories there&#8217;s one major candidate that is pretty much a no-brainer. I&#8217;m referring, of course, to <em>Legacy of Earth<\/em>, my sequel to <em>Battle For Earth<\/em>. I began work on <em>Legacy<\/em> over four years ago, and about a year before I launched this website. It&#8217;s been sitting on the back burner for far too long. I have over 107,000 words of it written already with another 100,000 planned. Why not finish this story and finally tie things up once and for all?<\/p>\n<p>Now, the reason I&#8217;ve been hesitant to serialize Legacy was because I didn&#8217;t really want to spend eternity posting it in tiny little chunks. If I serialized it at the same pace I&#8217;ve done with <em>Kruhl, Psyren, &amp;<\/em> the <em>Virtually Twisted Rewrite, <\/em>it would take me more than two and half years and that&#8217;s if I didn&#8217;t go over my projected length which I tend to do.<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s my &#8216;brilliant&#8217; solution? I serialize it in larger chunks. At least, until I get through the first half of the story. Then I&#8217;d have to scale things back to shorter postings, but it would cut still drastically cut down the time it would take to serialize the story.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;d cut the first two parts (basically the first 100,000 words) into 12 different parts ranging from about 3,500 to 4,500 words. Once I got past that, I&#8217;d switch to the same, roughly 1,500, word postings I&#8217;ve stuck to with <em>Kruhl. <\/em>If I can manage it, I&#8217;ll try to make them longer, but I can&#8217;t make any promises.<\/p>\n<p>I <em>could<\/em> stop serializing altogether and release it when it&#8217;s completed, but then I wouldn&#8217;t have any new content for the site for months and months and I&#8217;d really hate to do that.<\/p>\n<p>I know what I&#8217;ve said in the past about never doing this series as one of my &#8216;weekly serials&#8217;. I know some of you probably won&#8217;t like this approach, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever get Legacy completed if I don&#8217;t give it more priority. It&#8217;s been four years, for hell&#8217;s sake! 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