Dillon Bancroft's Blog
November 2, 2021
An ode to the journey
I've come across a weird phenomenon that I hope I'm not totally alone in.
I've written stories all my life. Romances, fan fiction, horror, thriller...as long as I was writing, I was put in a place of zen. It's my happy place. My safe space. Whatever you want to call it!
But back to the phenomenon. I read a quote once...and I don't remember where I saw it or remember it word for word, but it went along the lines of, "You become a different person with each book you write."
From a writing standpoint, I've never seen anything that hit the nail on the head so accurately.
Back and Forth isn't the first story I wrote. But...it's the first one I published. My first passion project. I would wake up in the morning, make my coffee, queue up Spotify, and start with writing sprints.
Make Me Dream was a whole different beast. That book took so much out of me. It was cathartic. It was cleansing. It was...hard! More often than not, I would find myself in a rut, desperately searching for a way out. I was doing exactly what I did with Back and Forth.
And that's when I realized Make Me Dream is NOT Back and Forth. They're two different books. Two different heroines with trauma that is leagues away from each other.
So, I switched up my routine.
I still indulged in my morning coffee, because, I'm unfortunately just human. But I attacked the story differently. I let it breathe instead of forced it out. It opened up a WHOLE can of worms I didn't realize I didn't deal with yet.
And so, now I'm writing Out of My Head, and of course, I'm in that same rut. I'm a different person this time around. I'm still finding my way.
The moral of this long blog post is, what may have been right for you before, may not be what's right for you now. And it's more than okay to explore that.
This has been weird shower thoughts with Dillon Bancroft. Have a lovely evening!Back and Forth
I've written stories all my life. Romances, fan fiction, horror, thriller...as long as I was writing, I was put in a place of zen. It's my happy place. My safe space. Whatever you want to call it!
But back to the phenomenon. I read a quote once...and I don't remember where I saw it or remember it word for word, but it went along the lines of, "You become a different person with each book you write."
From a writing standpoint, I've never seen anything that hit the nail on the head so accurately.
Back and Forth isn't the first story I wrote. But...it's the first one I published. My first passion project. I would wake up in the morning, make my coffee, queue up Spotify, and start with writing sprints.
Make Me Dream was a whole different beast. That book took so much out of me. It was cathartic. It was cleansing. It was...hard! More often than not, I would find myself in a rut, desperately searching for a way out. I was doing exactly what I did with Back and Forth.
And that's when I realized Make Me Dream is NOT Back and Forth. They're two different books. Two different heroines with trauma that is leagues away from each other.
So, I switched up my routine.
I still indulged in my morning coffee, because, I'm unfortunately just human. But I attacked the story differently. I let it breathe instead of forced it out. It opened up a WHOLE can of worms I didn't realize I didn't deal with yet.
And so, now I'm writing Out of My Head, and of course, I'm in that same rut. I'm a different person this time around. I'm still finding my way.
The moral of this long blog post is, what may have been right for you before, may not be what's right for you now. And it's more than okay to explore that.
This has been weird shower thoughts with Dillon Bancroft. Have a lovely evening!Back and Forth
August 19, 2021
Back and Forth is LIVE!
Back and Forth
Good morning!
Back and Forth is finally Live!
And now, for a long ode to this journey that you absolutely did not ask for, but I'm doing it anyway because this is HUGE, and it's more of a way to document this moment for me.
Writing has been such a cornerstone in my life for as long as I can remember. I've always been an introvert--super shy--I hid what I loved most: writing. Whether it was horribly weird diary entries, to Harry Potter Fan Fiction (and I promise you, you cannot find it because Quizilla is dead). So, instead, I turned to my second love. And I bet you can guess what that is.
I devoured books whenever I had the chance. I hid under my covers with a flashlight reading the Mary-Kate and Ashley books, my dad would come into my room, shut off my light, and tell me to go to bed. Little did he know, as soon as I heard his door close, I'd flick the light right back on and go to bed at some ungodly hour with the biggest book hangover for school the next day.
But then, High School came around and I couldn't be less interested in science or math. The spiral notebooks that were bought to write proofs and punnett squares, suddenly became the bindings of my earliest stories. *Epic* (for a teenager) love stories that thrived on angst and stupid fights.
Back and Forth is my baby. It was the story that nagged me for years. It was the book who screamed at me to write, to see the light of day. I wrote the damn thing. 97k words. And then I lost the entire freakin' manuscript. So I wrote it again. All 97k words. All the pain, love, tears, anguish are in these pages, my literal tears sewn in. Because let's face it, you'd cry too if you lost your entire effing manuscript!
And so now, I share them with you. Brandon and Ava, my besties for the restie, the pieces of my heart and soul that I never planned on sharing with anyone else. I hope you enjoy it!
Good morning!
Back and Forth is finally Live!
And now, for a long ode to this journey that you absolutely did not ask for, but I'm doing it anyway because this is HUGE, and it's more of a way to document this moment for me.
Writing has been such a cornerstone in my life for as long as I can remember. I've always been an introvert--super shy--I hid what I loved most: writing. Whether it was horribly weird diary entries, to Harry Potter Fan Fiction (and I promise you, you cannot find it because Quizilla is dead). So, instead, I turned to my second love. And I bet you can guess what that is.
I devoured books whenever I had the chance. I hid under my covers with a flashlight reading the Mary-Kate and Ashley books, my dad would come into my room, shut off my light, and tell me to go to bed. Little did he know, as soon as I heard his door close, I'd flick the light right back on and go to bed at some ungodly hour with the biggest book hangover for school the next day.
But then, High School came around and I couldn't be less interested in science or math. The spiral notebooks that were bought to write proofs and punnett squares, suddenly became the bindings of my earliest stories. *Epic* (for a teenager) love stories that thrived on angst and stupid fights.
Back and Forth is my baby. It was the story that nagged me for years. It was the book who screamed at me to write, to see the light of day. I wrote the damn thing. 97k words. And then I lost the entire freakin' manuscript. So I wrote it again. All 97k words. All the pain, love, tears, anguish are in these pages, my literal tears sewn in. Because let's face it, you'd cry too if you lost your entire effing manuscript!
And so now, I share them with you. Brandon and Ava, my besties for the restie, the pieces of my heart and soul that I never planned on sharing with anyone else. I hope you enjoy it!
