So I am, for the first time ever, trying to write a sequel, and in the first few chapters, a couple of revelations have come to me out of the blue:
1) It’s damned difficult to write when one half of an audience know nothing about your main character and the other half know the entire backstory intimately. I can’t imagine anything more likely to induce early-onset writer’s block.
2) When you take a character you thought you knew and give them a completely different problem to solve, they act in ways you never imagined they might. Several more layers of the onion are ripped away and you find yourself staring at someone different (and you always thought you knew them better than their best friend; or that you were, in fact, the best friend).
I still don’t know if I can find a way around (1), but I’m finding the experience of (2) completely beguiling.
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Let your characters write it for you, it will drive you nuts but you may get over the block. And who knows, you may end up in Stafford. No reason…!
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That must be hard to write! It seems like it would be, given that there’s the overall expectation to not do anything in the sequel that would tarnish / eradicate what the character achieved in the earlier story.
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