future of A Tepid Crossing

You all saw this coming, I'm sure.

I'm going to put an indefinite hiatus on A Tepid Crossing while I figure out exactly how I want the story to end. I've been putting it up chapter by chapter, proofreading after each. I've been treating it like a television show, or at least trying to, where each chapter contains a beginning, middle, and end. But books aren't supposed to function like this. The whole thing is supposed to have a beginning, middle, and end, not the chapters.

Thus, I'm going to plan out the second half of the book before I start writing the chapters.

Why?

I flew into this book headfirst, and never expected to write a second chapter, or to continue long enough to the point that I'd write chapters about Harriet Lyre. When Abigail Tyrell became a character, it was not planned. I just simply needed someone to keep an inn of sorts. It wasn’t until I finished the chapter that I began to really flesh her out. Everything was made up on the spot, to serve a different purpose in each chapter.

This is an absolutely awful way to go about things. But it’s because I didn’t think I’d even write that much.

If no one had liked any of it, I never would have continued it. I wasn't wholly invested in it, and I'd already started planning other things, when all of a sudden, three/four people said they wanted to see more (this isn’t to say I didn’t like this; on the contrary, I thought it was awesome). So I wrote another chapter, expecting my "fans" to go away. Two of them did, but two of them didn't. So I wrote another chapter, still expecting interest to fade. Yet there you two were again. And one of the other fans came back.

That's when I realized I had something on my hands. So I kept writing, and started liking it more.

And then, while writing Ch. 8, I realized I didn't like the process anymore.

I wanted to make it all work better.

As well, Work has been making me braindead. I can't come up with stuff as well as I could when I had the whole day to plan things out…

So here we are.

Expect A Tepid Crossing to continue at some point in July; maybe mid-way, maybe later. In the meanwhile, I will continue writing. I've had some ideas involving a certain Museum, and a certain group of Friends who tend to go on Adventures. I'll try to get those things written up and posted while I work on the overall plot of A Tepid Crossing.

Don't worry: This isn't going to turn into the last book I tried to write. I REALLY want to get A Tepid Crossing written and sent to a publisher. I think this is my best shot at getting a writing deal so far. I won't screw this up. And I know how much you guys have enjoyed the first half.

So in the meanwhile, feel free to tell people about it. Feel free to go over the first eight chapters and tell me what you think can be improved. Feel free to forget about it, and then be surprised when chapter nine shows up like an unopened Christmas present (at least I hope you’ll think of it like that.) Feel free to do whatever you want. It’ll go up when it’s good and ready to go up…

So, that's it.