Yesterday I finished the first draft of a new novel called The Moon is Real...It's kind of a sequel to The Dirty Milkman where it revisits Charlie and Prin and we find out what they've been doing the last five or six years. It also dips into A Place of Pretty Flowers where Jeremy Wiggins and Jimmy S. find themselves in the middle of a dangerously absurd predicament.
The story looks at that very thin line between fantasy and reality and how we sometimes need to go a little crazy in order to stay sane. The structure of the novel is similar to A Place of Pretty Flowers where the story starts at a scene then breaks off into separate stories that intertwine and find their way back to where it all began. I had fun with that template for Flowers and I think it works with this story too.
It's still a few years away from publication but it's exciting to have a full manuscript in front of me to work with. It currently sits at 51,000 words and am hoping to reach that 60,000 mark that has eluded me in the past.
The story looks at that very thin line between fantasy and reality and how we sometimes need to go a little crazy in order to stay sane. The structure of the novel is similar to A Place of Pretty Flowers where the story starts at a scene then breaks off into separate stories that intertwine and find their way back to where it all began. I had fun with that template for Flowers and I think it works with this story too.
It's still a few years away from publication but it's exciting to have a full manuscript in front of me to work with. It currently sits at 51,000 words and am hoping to reach that 60,000 mark that has eluded me in the past.
