Revising Purchas

[poliphilo]

I'm in the middle of revising the four interconnected novels over at purchas. I wrote them very fast- in less than a month each- and with very little forward planning. My main mistake- first time round- was to introduce a new villain in book # 2 when I had a perfectly amenable and very similar one to hand. That has been rectified. I have also rewritten a chunk of the second book where the action was particularly implausible and one of my people was acting out of character. Otherwise it's been a matter of going over the surface with a soft cloth.

Now I need to get started on book #3. 

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Strange you should suggest that. I was only thinking this afternoon that one way forward would be to revisit the characters in the modern world- or perhaps in the 20th century. I don't have any storylines in mind, but maybe if I sat down and just started to write one would suggest itself.

The fifth book is set in the 18th century. It begins well...