Wolf

I began this novel on 6/17/2025, but I also began it on October 1st, 2010.

Twilight of the Wolves was my second novel published and the fifth one I wrote. It came out in 2014 and then I took it out of print several years ago when I decided to abandon the internet.

I always loved this novel and have mostly been unhappy with the way it was released. There are too many things to say about that so I’ll just leave it alone. But because of my affection for the novel, I’ve been considering cleaning it up and republishing it.

Early June, I had this idea hit me like lightning on how to rewrite this novel. It turns it, in reality, into a completely different novel. A completely different kind of story. I finished up my shower and the thoughts kept tumbling all day into my dumb head so I decided to actually pick up the novel and rewrite it.

See, my initial idea was to just strip the language down a bit. The original was a very stylistically aggressive text. I had the mistaken idea that people were out there waiting for a fantasy novel written by Virginia Woolf.

This was not true then. It will likely never be true.

And so I thought if I just cleaned some of the language up, fixed the formatting that led to confusion in the original release, and maybe actually rewrote the ending it would be worth rereleasing.

But this new idea took over and swept the rest of the ideas away. To give you a sense for the drastic nature of this idea, it involves turning the first 4,000 words (20ish pages) into 80,000 words (300ish pages). I’m restructuring everything. Rather than tinker around with this 15 year old novel, I’m rewriting it from the ground up. Digging up the bones and building new ones.

Taking this 300 page novel and exploding it into a trilogy of probably half a million words is quite an undertaking, but it’s also wildly exciting to me.

And so I’ve decided this may be a good place to write about it. I’ve never really blogged about the writing process before, but I was talking to Cole Wehrle and thought this could be a very good idea. Or at least an interesting one.

So consider this the first of many posts as I sit down to rewrite this novel and make it all new.