Fiction Prospects
May. 26th, 2011 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helens_daughterDreamwidth sent me some codes, if anyone needs one.
Also, I am rapidly progressing toward the end of the first book of what will a trilogy. I simply can't get the whole Orestes story into one novel, otherwise it will run about 300,000 words, and cost $10 on Kindle. As it is, I am still trying to gauge whether or not readers will buy the three installments.
The first book will be titled The Young Lion.
People may think they're already reading the story for free on Fiction Press and Fanfiction.com. It's simply a rough draft, to gauge reader interest in the story; it is not the finished project, and it's very likely that the entire first book won't be posted online.
Once the draft is finished, then the really grueling work begins. I predict entire scenes might be cut, while others will be refined. Certain characters may need work to make them more believable. The dialogue has to be double-checked to make sure no glaring modernisms creep in. Descriptions have to be double-checked to make certain they're not repeated; Elektra, for example, is described as a lioness several times throughout the book.
The second book is tentatively titled The Madman of Mycenae, and deals with the double murders of Clytaemnestra and Aegisthus, and the madness and purification of Orestes.
The third book is The High King, and deals with Orestes' long reign.
