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New project
Oct. 16th, 2013 08:57 pmRemember when I said I'd tell you about my new project in my next post . . ? Well, after eating my words, I am NOW going to tell you about my new project. A month and a half later. Oops?
After many moons of research, worldbuilding, more research, more worldbuilding, character profiling, and oh yeah, even more worldbuilding, I'm about to embark upon outlining a new middle grade fantasy. About fairies.
Spoilers:
Right now, my target age range for this is upper middle grade, 10-14. Of my middle grade novels, I seem to have run the gamut: Skywatch is either true middle grade, 8-12, or edges into upper, 9-13. Trial is young middle grade, I'd call it ages 7-10. And this is 10-14. That's mostly because of the subject matter--this is about war and death and disability and prejudice and racism and systematic oppression and anger, a lot of anger. Aster is my angriest protagonist yet, and that's a contributing factor as to why this story has taken me so long to get a hold of. Aster is angry and reckless and self-involved.
The working title, which I came up with literally as I was writing this post, is The Forest War. (Previous working titles include the terrible and too-obvious Night and Day, and then Epic in homage to its inspiration.) Interestingly, unlike Skywatch and Trial, The Forest War is a standalone. I think it's also going to be longer than both of them--pushing the advisable length for middle grade long. We'll see.
Now I need to get down to outlining. Here goes nothing.
After many moons of research, worldbuilding, more research, more worldbuilding, character profiling, and oh yeah, even more worldbuilding, I'm about to embark upon outlining a new middle grade fantasy. About fairies.
Spoilers:
Right now, my target age range for this is upper middle grade, 10-14. Of my middle grade novels, I seem to have run the gamut: Skywatch is either true middle grade, 8-12, or edges into upper, 9-13. Trial is young middle grade, I'd call it ages 7-10. And this is 10-14. That's mostly because of the subject matter--this is about war and death and disability and prejudice and racism and systematic oppression and anger, a lot of anger. Aster is my angriest protagonist yet, and that's a contributing factor as to why this story has taken me so long to get a hold of. Aster is angry and reckless and self-involved.
The working title, which I came up with literally as I was writing this post, is The Forest War. (Previous working titles include the terrible and too-obvious Night and Day, and then Epic in homage to its inspiration.) Interestingly, unlike Skywatch and Trial, The Forest War is a standalone. I think it's also going to be longer than both of them--pushing the advisable length for middle grade long. We'll see.
Now I need to get down to outlining. Here goes nothing.