My current ongoing serial is based on a published book, The Hooman Saga - Part 2.
What’s little known is how I hybridized it together.
I was studying how fiction writing worked (reportedly) in fall 2017. And also working out writing frameworks and assembly lines. This was preps work for a challenge of writing one short story per week, every week, for a year.
I came across modern authors who recorded their work, and then transcribed it. And chased this back to pulp magazine writers like Erle Stanley Gardner (of Perry Mason fame) who could keep a half-dozen secretaries busy transcribing his output.
I hit upon the what-if of a post-apocalyptic refugee from a moon colony gone awry. The story starts out with a girl escaping in an emergency pod and travels to Earth, only to find that the alpha predator is now sentient, telepathic wolves.
This story wouldn’t go away, so I took that idea and that writing method to simply stand in the shade one warmish October day in 2017 and talked the whole thing out. Transcribing and editing it into shape took longer - and it wasn’t published until April 2018 - 14 chapters. After that, I found some time to write out and complete the second half of it (which brought it around 33 chapters total). And published that in Jun 2018. Between those two times, I found it was actually faster to write and edit instead of talk, transcribe, edit.
This video above is to show you where the story really started. In a pasture, under the shade of a nearby persimmon grove.
Now you know…
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