Jennifer Bene
Just sit down and write. You may hate it in the morning and erase it, you may love it and it could launch you into a 20k word spree of insanity. You’ll never know unless you try, and for first-time writers? We all suck in the beginning. It takes time to capture your voice, mostly because you’re so terrified of every word you put down when you start. Ten years ago when I got my work ripped apart, I wish there had been one person to sit me down, pat me on the back, and say ‘Yeah, this wasn’t perfect, but fuck it. No one is great when they start, pick up these pieces and do something with them because the core of this? The core of this is badass and deserves to be written.’ Everyone needs to be told that!
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I don't know if someone else felt it but me ; but at the first book of the "Thalia" series I imagined that the trilogy will be Marcus falling in love with Thalia and that can be his way towards redemption . I was really surprised by the end of book one at the appearance of "James". Was that done by you intentionally as a method of surprising your readers with an unexpected -(yet so sweet)- ending ?!
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