Did I mention?

In order for the way I want the Program series to work, I have to change the POV.  I was really struggling with how to do it.  Do I just wait until the moment and do it? Do I do it a few times before I make the big change?

Well, I consulted a group of writers I chat with. A lot of them questioned why it needed to happen.  It does, trust me. Sara doesn't die-- I'm not pulling a Divergent and killing my main character (sorry if that's a spoiler to you), but someone else needs to talk for awhile. Anyway, the ultimate consensus was that it would make the most sense if I had a few chapters here and there in Earthquake with more in the next book and a huge chunk in the final book.  Yes, I think it's going to take 4 books to finish.

I wrote the first secondary character POV chapter a while ago.  It was really hard to write because I'd never written that character before.  For those of you who don't know, Wildfire was initially a short story from Sara's POV. It ended right after she gets to Montana. Then there were 3 other short stories. These were published in anthologies by Horrified Press's YA imprint Sinister Saints. The books are only available in hardcover.  3 of them can be purchased on amazon (and lulu.com) and the other only from lulu.com. There are links to all of them on my website as well as my amazon and goodreads author pages. The second book is Luke's POV and the third is Sean's.  The fourth is a prequel, and it's from Jake's POV. The three short stories that made Wildfire are slightly different than originally published due to further edits and the POV's reverted to Sara. This is why I felt comfortable writing the other POV's.

So whose POV's are they? Not telling.  The first is a semi-new character.  He's got a tiny part in the beginning of Wildfire and is mentioned throughout. The other I'm currently trying to write.  The character is being stubborn, so I might have to abandon that and try from another character. The whole book is being stubborn.  I had this 20k word surge and I had thought that the rest would fall in line like that.  Silly me! I'm getting to the good part of Earthquake.  I think I mentioned the beginning is fairly slow paced. I am writing. I appreciate your patience.

Now I'm going to go see patients.  You know, my whole doctoring day job. I'd so much rather be writing!!!

Editing and writing

I am nearing the end of writing Earthquake. I just edited a big chunk of it. I have some beta readers lined up.  Looking good!