Commissioned to write a trilogy, children’s author Lari Don decided to tackle all three books at once. Learn from her experience here
Writing a trilogy is just like writing three novels, isn’t it? Only with the same characters, the same fictional world and the same research. So it should be easier and less time-consuming than writing three separate novels, shouldn’t it?
That’s what I thought when I agreed to write an adventure trilogy for my publishers Floris Books. After all, I’d already written two standalone novels and a series of four novels for 8 to 12-year-olds. How much harder could a trilogy be?