The more I think about it, the more that Tyro appeals to me as a Western. I’m not going to go back on the fantasy aspect of it. She’s still a collection of parts animated by the last ebbs of a dying magic. It’s the theme of the individual’s flight from society that appeals to me. Tyro is fleeing the society of her Master and slavery to a society that values personal freedom and the responsibility that comes with it. Her losing things is the act of stripping away those old parts of her new “life” as an usability.

I can’t wait to get started on this project next year. I’m going to start the outline in September of this year, so I really need to get on the stick and finish Tribal. I do want to end this year with a finished novel. I also need to get on the stick and edit The Show Must Go On to start sending out queries for it. There are so many things to do and hardly any time.

I should play the lottery. It’s guaranteed money, right?

Another theme that I really want to expand on in this book is the end of an age. In the spiritual prequel to this series, The Marvelous And Malefic Doomsday Medicine Show (God, I love that title), we see the beginning of the end of magic with Ehren. This trilogy is set some long time later. How later is up in the air. I’m thinking two hundred years because I want most of the regular people to have no frame of reference for the powers of the past, but some of the supernatural creatures to remember. I should get back to that book after next year.

Well, having the next two years planned out writing wise is a relief. I just have to get started on it. Wish me luck and take care!