I had no idea, when I decided to write a follow up to After Here: The Celestial Plane and What Happens When We Die, where the path I was about to embark on would lead. Every time I thought I knew what I was doing, I would freeze up, unable to proceed. I developed comprehensive outlines to work from, and then proceeded to discard them. I spent hours typing content which I later discarded.
I tried going back to basics. Who was my audience and what was my objective? The more I typed the less clear those answers were.
As I began working on the actual manuscript, I quickly realized I had a problem. The book was developing into a monstrous volume that was closer to an esoteric encyclopedia than what I’d intended it to be.
After several weeks of unsuccessful attempts to get the project back on track, I scrapped everything and started from scratch. Although this may seem drastic and have other writers cringing, I felt it was the right and necessary thing to do. The result, Angels And Engineers Volume I: Spirits Among Us, and Angels and Engineers Volume II: Angels Among Us, will be available Winter 2012.
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