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Colleen Hoover:
Hiii Colleen, I’ve been reading your books for like 4 years now and am almost caught up on all of them! I have not read Regretting You yet I’m waiting for the LA book signing next week to buy it there :D My top two are currently November 9 (first book I read of yours) and It Ends With US. Just wanted to ask if you could change anything little or big from one of your books what would you change?
Colleen Hoover
OMG I would change so much in EVERY book. lol. It's very hard for me to go back and read my novels after they've been published because I would change every paragraph. I don't ever feel "finished" writing a book.
But I'd mostly go back to my earlier days. I think in Slammed, there's a lot of insta-love that I'd pull back on. And I was very friendly with the italics and bold lettering in that book. I cringe every time I see an italicized word from Slammed. lol
And in Hopeless, I think I'd pull back a little on the sex scene between Sky and Holder. At the time I was writing that book, I allowed myself to be influenced by the amount of sex in the New Adult books I was reading, so I felt a sex scene was necessary in Hopeless at the time. And while that scene is tragic, I do feel like I would like it better if it were written differently, especially considering Sky's age.
I've learned a lot in the eight years since I started writing. So yeah, definitely things I would change in a lot of my books, but I also like that I can't change these things, because you can see the progression of me as a writer and possibly me as a person with each book.
But I'd mostly go back to my earlier days. I think in Slammed, there's a lot of insta-love that I'd pull back on. And I was very friendly with the italics and bold lettering in that book. I cringe every time I see an italicized word from Slammed. lol
And in Hopeless, I think I'd pull back a little on the sex scene between Sky and Holder. At the time I was writing that book, I allowed myself to be influenced by the amount of sex in the New Adult books I was reading, so I felt a sex scene was necessary in Hopeless at the time. And while that scene is tragic, I do feel like I would like it better if it were written differently, especially considering Sky's age.
I've learned a lot in the eight years since I started writing. So yeah, definitely things I would change in a lot of my books, but I also like that I can't change these things, because you can see the progression of me as a writer and possibly me as a person with each book.
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