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jon_chaissonToday at work I was thinking about writing cycles and how I feel I'm at the end of one. The plans I have on the rewrite of Theadia have bloomed from a one-novel story into something much larger, and this made me realize that perhaps this current wave of one-off novels I'd written post-trilogy are coming to a close. I'd chosen that route basically because I'd focused on the trilogy for so many years I needed a mental and creative break and wanted to work on lighter things for a while.
Theadia was originally going to be one of those, but recently I've been thinking otherwise. I love what I have so far of it...but I know I can do more with it. I WANT to do more with it. I've been spending down time at work doing a bit of world building with characters, subplots and settings, and it occurred to me that this was exactly what I'd done when I rewrote The Phoenix Effect as the trilogy, so I took it as a sign.
That said, I'm starting to see Queen Ophelia's War in its own way as the last in the cycle of one-off novels. I think I'm ready to get stuck in on the Big Universes again. I didn't expect it to be in a non-Mendaihu Universe story, but that's fine by me -- part of my love of world building is the expansion work!
Theadia was originally going to be one of those, but recently I've been thinking otherwise. I love what I have so far of it...but I know I can do more with it. I WANT to do more with it. I've been spending down time at work doing a bit of world building with characters, subplots and settings, and it occurred to me that this was exactly what I'd done when I rewrote The Phoenix Effect as the trilogy, so I took it as a sign.
That said, I'm starting to see Queen Ophelia's War in its own way as the last in the cycle of one-off novels. I think I'm ready to get stuck in on the Big Universes again. I didn't expect it to be in a non-Mendaihu Universe story, but that's fine by me -- part of my love of world building is the expansion work!
