Half Way There

I reached the halfway point on Where Evil Abides last week, volume 1 of Children of the Falls. My estimated word count based on the average chapter length should be around 190,000 words. I currently stand at just over 100,000, which is about the total length of the first book I ever wrote. Whoa.

This series is presenting two major challenges.

1. The reason I refer to the individual books as Volume 1, Volume 2, etc., as opposed to Book 1, Book 2... is because each book is essentially a collection of seven narratives. That means there are seven distinct characters ranging in age from 5 to 20, each with a unique arc, personality traits, and narrative styling.


2. Worldbuilding. I've designed medieval fantasy worlds numerous times—in other books I've written or co-authored, with children in schools during writing workshops—but what I've incidentally immersed myself in is map-making on a global scale. I'm currently working on three different continents roughly the size of North America, Africa, and Eastern Asia. Each realm has different governments, religions, superstitions, people, clothing, architecture, language, and more. It's world-building on a scale I've never done before.

Just telling you about it now has exhausted me. Off to bed!