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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
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Published on November 02, 2021 16:28 Tags: romance, writing