Writer's Archive - #001 - 18/03/2026

 

Writer's Archive - #001 - 18/03/2026

I woke up last Saturday with a scene in my mind. It was of Laith, my protagonist for Murder in Heliopolis, waking from his coma. It’s been a while since I’ve wanted to write.

I opened up my mystery journal, where I work on most of my mystery projects, and started to scribble away. I wrote ten pages in one sitting, and I had a small revelation. I opened up my old, glitchy-screened laptop, got on Royal Road, and finally scheduled two new chapters. I’m currently working on the third.

The revelation I mentioned was a simple one. I wrote Murder in Heliopolis for the 2021 RR Writathon. The idea, at the time, was that it was going to be a short, standalone novel. Since then, I’ve been dragging its weight around, and mentally, I’ve become tired of it.

But I also don’t want to leave it incomplete. It deserves an ending. A real ending. That’s why I’ve decided that come what may, even if it’s not the perfect manuscript that I had tried for so long to make it into, I’m going to enjoy wrapping up the story that I started writing for fun one November in 2021. It’s not that serious, and I need to move on.