Finished

My book that is.
It's been a long and strange journey writing that, right from its conception I always had more ideas than I could handle... Which will actually split it into a trilogy.
Though to be honest, the idea for the second book came first, which was just the image of a faerie riding a unicorn into battle.
Then I got thinking, how did this battle start? Is it a war? How did that start? Then I began piecing together the wars origin which soon became Faerie-Tale.
Even though it is a trilogy and that I shall be re-using the same characters, I'm saddened by the fact I no longer need to write FT (Faerie-Tale) anymore, it's been with me for so long now and has journeyed through key moments of my life with me.
My wedding, the opening day of my salon, finding out I was pregnant, the UK road trip, birth, my darling daughters first smile.
All that in the space of just a little over two years. And through the two years the concept of FT was with me, it had become a part of me.
Now, I didn't really start writing until Christmas of 2008 (I had bits and pieces complete, but nothing major) but the idea and planning had been in my head since May of that same year... And now... Now it's not there... There are no more plot ideas to think of, no more new ways to drive the story forwards, no more striving to reach the ending... It's just done and laid out exactly as how I had envisioned.
Sure I'm proud of this, as I never thought I'd finish it, hell, I only just finished writing Chapter 9 of 25 this Christmas Eve just passed.
But it's gone and I don't really know what to do with myself, sure I have the sequels to write and the odd spin-off book, but I just feel lost not having FT to write anymore.
It feels as if I've lost an old friend, though I'll always remember the good times we had.

Doing a Frankenstein

So I'm writing this book, Faerie-Tale... yeah, snappy title I know, but I feel with it I have created something now far beyond my control.
It started out as a simple poem (which will be on my other page "Live, Laugh, Love" when I decide to put it up) and from there, I wanted to expand on it, open it out, so out came this idea for a book.
Well, actually what came first was the idea of an epic poem and the image of a faerie riding a unicorn and waving her sword around like a... well... fairy.
BUT that simple idea has evolved, I thought, "yeah, a nice easy project for me to work on".
It was originally going to be 100 pages long and spread out over 5 chapters with about 20 pages in each, I still keep that estimate as a guideline, but now I'm looking at 25 chapters and as I write, I'm constantly coming up with new ideas, new things to add, i know that it isn't actually a bad thing, but I set myself deadline, and I can never meet them, I know I shouldn't set them, but without them I'd hardly get anything written.
But beyond the ever evolving story, I have also written a simple 25 page prequel, and I have plans for two sequels, while the third book is actually still quite the mystery to me, the second book is pretty much fleshed out.
It will be double the size of the one I'm writing now... at least, and will actually jump around three separate plots and time-lines with each chapter, like in The Grudge, the story doesn't follow a set chronological path!
On top of this, I have also got plans to write a years worth of diary entries for my books main heroine... Sometimes I just feel like I have created a monster as this project seems to dominate so much of my time and my life... and even though I have a child on the way I'm still going to set time aside to finish this work... all of it! maybe after it's all done, I can finally lay it to rest and be done with it... but it's me so I doubt it...
Especially with the idea me and my husband concocted back in 2008 for a zombie horror novel... or three...