The Evil: A page turner?

With The Badman finalised, I had the opportunity to catch up with my latest piece, The Evil.

I have always been of the opinion that my novels should not be lazy and drift through lives. It must be a page turner, with excitement, suspense, tension, worry on every single page. After reading back The Evil, currently in first draft and around 65,000 words (not at the end yet), I couldn’t believe the pace. Good old Ancient maestro. Good it. Now stop haunting me for a few minutes. I need to intellectualise this stuff.

With every novel I write, I become much more confident. I have learned important lessons from each of them, and The Evil is no different. There are two main characters who are thrown in to situation after situation, and just when things can’t get worse … they do.

I estimated the novel should come in at first draft to 80,000, but it feels like it is still beginning. I wonder where it will end up. The last one I wrote, The Badman, had too much information and I had to put half of it away for a sequel, perhaps even a trilogy. I am so excited to find out what’s going to happen next in The Evil… there I go again sounding like a reader, but I reckon the hardest person to impress is myself. If I like it in its current form, chances are, it isn’t that bad a piece.

I love writing. I have no plan. I just write and wonder what will happen. It’s also a very cheap way to read novels. The fact I wrote them is a bonus. I love this writing lark.