Stylo Fantome's Blog - Posts Tagged "writing"
I Wish I Could Say I Did It All for You ...
So Reparation is on its way. It has been sent to beta-readers, and has gotten good feedback. It is with an editor right now, as well. One more set of rewrites and edits, and ARCs will be ready to go out.
Do to my amazing stalking abilities, I have seen people comment with things like "well, potential release date", or wondering if Sanders' prologue was just written because of "fan" interest in him from the first book.
I can tell you, Reparation will 110% be published on time. How do I know that? Because it's written. It's finished. Keeping a promise is important to me, and giving a release date is making a promise, in my opinion. I wouldn't have set that date if I didn't think I could make it, and I was able to set that date because why? The story was written.
Same with the Sanders prologue. I loved Sanders by the middle of writing Degradation. I already knew his backstory by the end of it - it demanded to be told, hence why it was the prologue to part two. I also knew he would be playing a much bigger part, so I wanted to get his story out there to explain some more about him and his ways.
I had no idea people would respond to him the way they have - I am beyond delighted and pleased. I get more comments about Sanders than I do about Tate, Jameson, and Ang combined. People just love him, and I'm so proud of him and the character he became. I'm very glad people love him as much as I do - but his story existed and was written long before I hit publish.
I wrote Degradation in early February of this year, 2014. I took the entire month of March off from life, didn't type or read a word, as I was dealing with a family emergency.
I picked the story line back up in mid-March. Sanders' prologue was the very first thing I thought of, very first thing I wrote. When I re-read, I actually usually skip it because I've read it SO MANY TIMES now. Separation had three separate starts - over 100 pages went in the trash - but Sanders' prologue always remained.
I think Reparation got started some time in April. The entire storyline was completely finished by the end of May. Did some rewrites and edits on Degradation, and then I started sending out ARCs between June 15th-20th - the same time I set up this account and my Facebook account.
So The Kane Trilogy was a trilogy long before I ever hit publish - my mission statement is no joke, I would never EVER publish an unfinished storyline.
Separation was such a bitch to write, caused me so many problems, took a massive amount more time to write than either Degradation or Reparation. Imagine if I had published Degradation without writing Separation? I would probably still be working on it right now. And I - personally - don't think that's okay or fair to do, with a cliffhanger ending. Why should readers suffer because I have writer's block and poor planning abilities? I can just hold my horses and NOT hit publish - people can't get antsy about a book they don't know exists.
So there you have it. I would like to say I included things just for the readers and fans - but alas, I did not. I couldn't, because everything you read existed long before any of you even knew who I was.
So if you have any input on my next stories, now is the time to put in your two cents to tell me what you want to see and read! Cause by the time I hit publish, everything will already long since be done.
Do to my amazing stalking abilities, I have seen people comment with things like "well, potential release date", or wondering if Sanders' prologue was just written because of "fan" interest in him from the first book.
I can tell you, Reparation will 110% be published on time. How do I know that? Because it's written. It's finished. Keeping a promise is important to me, and giving a release date is making a promise, in my opinion. I wouldn't have set that date if I didn't think I could make it, and I was able to set that date because why? The story was written.
Same with the Sanders prologue. I loved Sanders by the middle of writing Degradation. I already knew his backstory by the end of it - it demanded to be told, hence why it was the prologue to part two. I also knew he would be playing a much bigger part, so I wanted to get his story out there to explain some more about him and his ways.
I had no idea people would respond to him the way they have - I am beyond delighted and pleased. I get more comments about Sanders than I do about Tate, Jameson, and Ang combined. People just love him, and I'm so proud of him and the character he became. I'm very glad people love him as much as I do - but his story existed and was written long before I hit publish.
I wrote Degradation in early February of this year, 2014. I took the entire month of March off from life, didn't type or read a word, as I was dealing with a family emergency.
I picked the story line back up in mid-March. Sanders' prologue was the very first thing I thought of, very first thing I wrote. When I re-read, I actually usually skip it because I've read it SO MANY TIMES now. Separation had three separate starts - over 100 pages went in the trash - but Sanders' prologue always remained.
I think Reparation got started some time in April. The entire storyline was completely finished by the end of May. Did some rewrites and edits on Degradation, and then I started sending out ARCs between June 15th-20th - the same time I set up this account and my Facebook account.
So The Kane Trilogy was a trilogy long before I ever hit publish - my mission statement is no joke, I would never EVER publish an unfinished storyline.
Separation was such a bitch to write, caused me so many problems, took a massive amount more time to write than either Degradation or Reparation. Imagine if I had published Degradation without writing Separation? I would probably still be working on it right now. And I - personally - don't think that's okay or fair to do, with a cliffhanger ending. Why should readers suffer because I have writer's block and poor planning abilities? I can just hold my horses and NOT hit publish - people can't get antsy about a book they don't know exists.
So there you have it. I would like to say I included things just for the readers and fans - but alas, I did not. I couldn't, because everything you read existed long before any of you even knew who I was.
So if you have any input on my next stories, now is the time to put in your two cents to tell me what you want to see and read! Cause by the time I hit publish, everything will already long since be done.
