The ODDs 3

Today I went for a walk to Wilton Shopping Centre, and then a little further out to the newly opened, and totally amazing, Bonza Pies (it used to be up by IBI, it's in Cork now!).

On my way back I was thinking about the third ODDs book, which is the one I am presently writing, the second ODDs (called "The ODDs: Chaos and Discord") is finished. The thoughts were prompted by a Church that I have always imagined part of the third ODDs taking place in. This led to thoughts about how much is happening in the third ODDs book.

I want to do the third ODDs a little differently. The first and second ODDs are like Harry Potter books in the sense that everything that occurs in them takes place over the course of a year. (May-May ish)
In the third ODDs I wanted to do the entire story in less time. However, the ending of the third ODDs is limited to two periods of time based on rules laid down in the first ODDs.
These two time periods are Halloween and somewhere near the summer solstice. These are the only two dates on which the Dimensional Portal in Oakhill can be opened (recently I did some Oakhill sketches, I may try upload them here). That means that I would either have to start the story in June(ish) and go to Halloween, or skip some time in the timeline and start the third book later in the third year of the ODDs story, or run through a full year again.

To shorten what I could say there are about fifteen to twenty chapters in the ODDs. Over the Summer months four of those are already taken up. Then they find the fire Empowered's weapon (you will learn about those in the ODDs 2) then there are a couple of chapters, then one on the evils of smoking... Anyway, there will end up being a lot of chapters. The third ODDs also introduces The Healing Empowered, The Metal Empowered, The Air Empowered, and the Forging Empowered. That's four new types of Empowered, four new characters with back stories.
On top of that the Lightning Empowered, Jon Martin, makes his come back to the ODDs storyline and whatever happened at the end of the ODDs 2 means there will be FOUR new Growth Empowered.
Just because that isn't enough one of the new Empowered comes from the US, and has a dad in the US Army, so they will be getting involved in the ODDs' affairs; the Guiders aren't too happy with the things they have been witness to in Limerick either, and they plan to retaliate against the charismatic leadership of David; and, because I am a sucker for punishment, I am introducing an alternate timeline, one in which David Murphy is not, and never was the Water Empowered, which could be a book in itself I guess.

In short,
There is too much in the ODDs 3 to be contained within one book. I felt a lot more at peace with the story if there were two books to contain all of this story. That way I can do two books and do one to Christmas and one to Summer.

BUT... Adding a story means that there would be THIRTEEN stories in the ODDs, meaning that all the symbolism of TWELVE Grand Masters, TWELVE Empowered, across TWELVE books would be lost. So, I have decided to scrap book 9 of the present ODDs timeline and include it in the end of book 8 (9 now) and the start of book 10.

New ODDs running order is as follows:

Possible Comic Book Prequels:
-The Grand Masters
-The Many Adventures of James Games (the story of the first Water Empowered).

The Limerick Trilogy:
-The ODDs Beginnings (which you have hopefully ordered by now... it has a black cover.)
-The ODDs 2: Chaos and Discord (it will have a green cover, expect it around 2015).
-The ODDs: Dragons (a spin off of the ODDs 2)
-The ODDs 3: Prophetic Revenge (?, it will a blue cover, but I can't think what it will be called yet)

The Cork Trilogy:
-The ODDs 4: The Battle for Limerick (which will have a red cover.)
-The ODDs 5: Apocalypse. (Grey Cover)
-The ODDs: Richard (working title, a spin off of what is now the ODDs 5)
-The ODDs 6: Colonies (brown cover)

The Other Trilogy:
-The ODDs 7:
-The ODDs 8: Father.
-The ODDs 9
(It would be at this point in the story that I have removed a book. It was going to be called "The ODDs: Rage")

The Next Generation Trilogy:
-The ODDs 10: Generation Z.
-The ODDs 11: Collection.
-The ODDs 12: Always Darkest.

Other books that weave in and out of the main timeline:
-The ODDs: TimeWarp.
-The ODDs: Romeo's Diary.

That about sums it up. Yes, there are more than 12 books in the ODDs series