An Interesting Side Project

I do a lot of working on scenes and stories while I go for walks. It’s fun and makes the walks more interesting for me, so I can combine healthy living (well, a bit of it) with writing and keeping myself amused. It might also cost me a few acquaintances, because I’m usually pretty blind to people on my walks, even though I’m not blind to traffic and suchlike. Quite some scenes I do on such walks, however, don’t go into stories, they are merely for my own entertainment and to explore the characters.

Now I started collecting some of those stories connected to the Knight Agency. Quite some originally not connected scenes have found their way into stories (like a very drastic way for some of Jane’s friends to learn about her true identity which can be seen, in a way, in the new novel “Death Dealer,” out now). Others will never feature in the stories, because they have the wrong POV (I only write from Jane’s perspective), go against established lore (such as time travel in a series which keeps as close to reality as a sometimes exaggerating spy story can), or simply come too late to feature (because the story in question is already finished). Two of them I wrote today already and I will publish them either on this blog or on my Deviant Art account or on both.

The stories:

The Rocket Launcher Incident: told from Brock’s perspective, it’s about him getting into trouble during a mission after getting into trouble with Steven over a few badly chosen words.

Coming Home: told from Steven’s perspective, it’s about him coming back home after the kidnapping and following incidents in “Secret Keeper” and thinking about some things which happened in his life.

I’ve also already played through “A View of the Future” a lot on my walks. This one will be from Sir Frederic’s perspective (albeit from his younger self) and will include time travel.

Expect more stories as my thoughts run wild. I’m pretty sure the Black Knight Agency and the yet-to-be-officially-started Magpies series will feature in The Stories That Weren’t (the name of the file) as well over time.