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[Without the commercials]

You know when you get sucked into a really good tv series? You’ve binged all of the episodes and fallen deep into the storyline and the lives of the characters.

And then, you land  on the last episode of the season. Your heart plummets knowing you now have to wait an entire year before the next season.

Well… The good news is you don’t have to wait a year for the next season of Neve! Just a month or two.

Before I started publishing on Substack, Neve was fully  written. Just a matter of editing, I told myself. What I didn’t anticipate was how my characters would change, the twists and turns that resulted from the  decisions they made,  them coming alive on the page.

I’m simply a vessel for my characters. I’m a medium to allow them to express themselves. 

Which results in some unexpected turns and changes in who I thought a character was but really is. It can change the direction of the story if I’m not careful. 

Serializing fiction is like watching a Netflix series. There is an overarching theme of the entire series, broken down into seasons, which are further broken down into episodes (or installments). We just finished our first season where we met Neve and cheered for her as she survived the vast wilderness and put her life on the line in an insane competition to gain power and freedom.

This woman lived in hell and then endured a new kind of hell. And survived.

Only for the season to end with her shackled and forcibly removed. 

We will be on a break as I work through some of the details and story line for Season 2. Think of it as a commercial break without having to sit through ridiculous ads that have nothing to do with the product being sold. (I’m talking to you Hulu.) 

When I say long, I mean about a month or two. There is nothing worse than getting sucked into an amazing series and having to wait a year for the next season. 

I will not put you through that torture my dear friends. 

But it will be a month or two and then we’ll be back in full swing for Season 2, where Neve’s next adventure awaits.