A Trilogy
I never intended to write a trilogy. And the title of the series is perhaps not the best one. “The Dutch Master” series refers, of course, to the Famous Dutch Masters like Frans Hals, Johannes Vermeer and Rembrandt van Rijn, but also to Koen de Groen. A Dutch BDSM-Master in the present time.
Good Girl is my first finish attempt ever. And I was quite pleased with the result. Outlining never was my thing, but Good Girl I did a bit of outlining before I started. I started many times and after 40.000 or 50.000 words, concluded that it was crap, and started with a new idea. Twice I wrote about 60.000 words in a Nanowrimo competition, but looking back at those… Well, let’s say it is true what they say about the more you write, the better you will be.
Compared to Good Girl, I wrote Bad Girl in half of the time I needed for my first book. I knew there had to be flashbacks to parts of Sylvia-de Groen van Geelen sorid past, and I wrote those first. That was a lot of fun. I wrestled a while with how to integrate those flashbacks into the here and now. But I was pleased with the end result. Although it recived a luke warm welcome on Storiesonline, I still consider Bad Girl a far better book than it’s predecessor.
Ugly GirlI knew that in the third book, Ugly Girl, I needed to make more preparations. I actually started outlining this book. And it is supposed to become the best book in this series.
I hope.
I used AEON TIMELINE to map out all the actions in all the three books (224 up to now). And each event (as Aeon has named its actions) had a date when it happened, the participants in the event, The book(s) the event was described, the location where it happened, how old the characters were and the chapter in the book the event took place.
So this helped me to be consistant (well, as much as possible) because events overlap several books.
I would like you to join my journey, making Ugly Girl. Because it’s not about the Goal,…