Author Allen M Werner

I’ve officially decided what I will be working on for my next book!

I’m excited now because I realized what I have to do to get the ball rolling.

For nearly 8 years, I have been working with an established framework of characters, locations and motivations. I knew the major players inside and out. I wrote biographies on them and knew all their motivations and the direction of each of their stories.

Now I have to create a whole new set of characters, locations and motivations. I am back to researching and developing the creative part of the storytelling adventure.

I need to map out times and places to make sure everything is synchronized, seamless and cohesive.

And all this plotting and planning isn’t even the writing part.

These are all those intricate details that brings a character to life for the readers. It is the reason a character says various things or thinks and believes other things. It is their motivation to be honest, or to lie, or to manipulate, or curse, or fight, or run.

Why do they do what they do?

Who were their parents? Their siblings? Their influences?

What events happened to mold and shape them into the human being they are now?

I actually like this part of writing.

With The Crystal Crux Series, the major players were all developed a long time ago. The minor characters that I introduced in later books didn’t have to be fleshed out to the max like a major character.

I’ll reveal more as the story begins to develop.

No timeline on this. I’m a self-published author who works a full-time job. I’ll work on the new book as much as time permits. That is one of the beautiful parts about being self-published. No deadlines. Praise Ye Yah!

Don’t forget, the 2nd edition of Shimmer drops this Friday, February 29, 2024. You can preorder the Kindle version right now. On Friday, you can order a paperback or hardcover version.

“You have been to the mountain.”
The one I fell off?”
“No. The mountain of grief and sickness. The unforeseen death of a little girl.” And Ven turned about and gestured towards the tree line from where they had entered the clearing. Gold dust fell from his fingertips and drifted there, revealing a small girl on the ground. Pero came quickly to Ven’s side, eyes wide open.
“Francis has a saying.” Ven said.
It only took Pero a second to recall it. “He says you can’t see a thing until it is meant to be found.”
Excerpt from The Crystal Crux Series : Shimmer

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