Since I'm about 99.9% sure no agent is going to be interested in my novel, it has given me complete freedom to write the sequel any way I want. It's actually nice to be writing something that I am not writing in the hopes that it will sell. I didn't really write the first book that way either, but in the back of my mind, I was always thinking, but this could make me famous! Haha. Now that I know that isn't going to happen, I am writing the sequel in multiple voices, and the new character Marek has an even worse gutter mouth than Anna. I mean, like I worry that if I put this one on WattPad it will be censored. I don't know if they do that at all, but I will certainly find out if this thing goes up there ever!
Anyway, it's fun. I'm still tracking my progress and trying to write every day, but it's slow getting this one started. So I'm writing in small bites -- about 15 minutes at a time. Sometimes I get on a roll and write for an hour, but never more than that. I don't know how people like Anne Rice write for 12 hours a day. I'm pretty sure I'm not in any way capable of that. But maybe if I had readers, and contracts, and deadlines and all of that it would make a difference. I'm pretty sure I'll never know.
If I get really stuck, I'll just switch to the prequel or the Alexander and Jeremiah story. I'm sort of using this sequel to develop voices related to those stories anyway. Marek isn't like Alexander, but he is a gay man, and more importantly, he is a man, so I need practice trying to write in a man's voice. And I need practice writing as Isabelle for the prequel. Originally I thought I was going to write that in third person, and I still might, but if I can get a sense of her in this sequel and have her not sound exactly like Anna, then I will write the prequel in first person too.
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