Last Chapter

Yesterday’s post was a long one, and today the work for my everyday job is piling up, so this will be a brief (hopefully) post. It is a cold, rainy, and windy day here, and these are the days I do my best writing, so I am eager to get through my day job pile and get back to what I love.

As you may have seen from yesterday’s post (check out What are the Tocharian Gospels), I have quite a chore ahead of me. I know I keep saying that I am close with finishing the Slaying of the Bull (Book 1 in the Tocharian Gospel series), but I really am getting very close. Actually, after yesterday’s work, today I will be working on the final chapter. It is not necessarily the most crucial chapter in the book itself, but it is vital for the continuation of the series. I’ve already written the climax of the work and went back and filled in some plot holes, now it is time to end the book.

If you’re a writer, you know that sometimes it is difficult to know when you’ve said what needs to be said and step back. Stepping back is especially tricky when the work is in the historical fiction realm, and you know for sure that the story doesn’t end on your last page. I’ve been debating with myself as to whether to keep the series going in the current medieval time frame until I run out of things to say, but that could easily lead to an encyclopedic work. The events in the Slaying of the Bull changed many things in history. It tilted the power scale in Europe and affected religious thought, just to name two. But ultimately, these are not the stories I want to tell right now. What I do want to tell is how something in the distant past can influence the present. The Slaying of the Bull built an excellent foundation for this larger story, and now it is time to construct the house of the Tocharian Gospels series. And, don’t forget, perhaps one of the best things about being a writer is that you are the creator of the story. If, in the future, I feel like going back to the Bull and telling a part of the tale not covered, all I need to do is put pen to paper.

Cheers!