Oops! Apparently I forgot to share #9

Normally, when I start a project I have a basic idea and premise of what I want the story to be - a teen coming of age, or a sci-fi drama. I don’t like to think about how it is going to end, but instead, I want the story to evolve organically and let it tell me how it is going to end. However, Half A Life was the first story that from the very beginning I knew what was going to happen to wrap up the story. Knowing that was incredibly hard because I first had to work backwards; I had a concept, now I needed to fill in the blanks with how to get there. That was when I started looking at some of my old notes and found my abandoned adult fiction story. Re-reading those notes, I suddenly thought, why not use some of this to get a start. It worked, but still it was hard to build up these characters, that were becoming very dear to me, to the point that the story was going to reach the inevitable conclusion without giving to much foreshadowing so that the reader would be as surprised as the characters were. I don’t know if I could always working like that, but in this case I think it worked perfectly.