Future Guess

So I've published the novella, Flutes of Paradise. What's next? I'm not sure how many writers would give a direct answer regarding their next project. I will say I've been getting interested in stories with a conventional story structure. More readers read them. In the past I've been interested in writing those, but published offbeat fiction instead. Truth be told, I haven't analyzed my stories, so I have no idea what the deal may be with them structure-wise. I just wrote a beginning, middle, and end, and then stopped. Of course, not every famous fiction has the old and familiar matrix that is so nice. Some story arcs chronicle a gradual alchemical change rather than a hero's quest or the like. That's what you get in The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino: an unfolding revelation. I wonder what's stopping me from writing something with a rise-and-fall curve. Like when I thought I couldn't write a story in serial format, until I did Excalibur Unum in Figure Eights, which I published daily online. (I later published it as the second of two novellas in Two Novellas.) Whatever follows, I hope you enjoy my books!

Pete O'Brien