Previous Post Think back to John Byrne in his heyday when he did the Man of Steel miniseries. He took a well-established character with a wealth of development but a lot of tangles and he somehow distilled a pretty convincing origin story that resonated with old and new readers alike. It's probably still the definitive version of how Superman began. I think the time has come for you to consider a similar Lara tale. I know you've written her before, in and out of the Parodyverse, but I encourage you to consider another, definitive telling of her early career. With hindsight, years of knowing the character, and possibly even newer elements like her relationship to some of your more recent characters like Liu Xi and Anna to fold back into the tale you could probably come up with something mythic. The publishing world has also evolved since your last novel was put out there. There are some very interesting deals from Amazon and Createspace and some others that weren't around back in the day. The appetite for e-books has grown substantially (55% of my sales are electronic now) and the market for superhero fiction has blossomed. Some of it, like Van Allen Plexico's Sentinels series, charts in the top 100 SF category on Amazon with every new volume. Use the board here as a focus group and demo audience and put together something in the 60,000 word range that tells Lara's story and introduces Lara's world as you'd want it to be. Then let it loose. Why not?

I started it, but I got about 2 chapters in before I realized it's going to be way bigger than the PVB miniseries I thought it would be.

And now I'm not sure people on this board would even read it, since it doesn't really include any of their characters, and it's not really fanfic either.

My biggest issue with published work is I'm never happy with what I write even a short time later, so I'd have to learn the most important thing: When to stop re-writing and fixing. That's the hardest thing for me.