Before we get into this post, I want to share with you what I’m doing right now. I’m currently waiting for Amazon to load so I can order two copies of each of my novels for a local business (which is sixteen books), and freaking out a bit, because that is really exciting. I’m also raving to Lewis Capaldi and forcing myself to write my blog posts.
This post in particular is exciting, because it’s all about my newest novel, “Healing x3 Part One”, which is available now! (Healing x3 Part One) In honour of my latest child being released, I thought I would pull back the curtain a bit on this project, and share some of my inner thoughts on the project, as well as a bit about the process of writing it.
Let me take you right back to the beginning of this project, and how I got the idea of it. You see, this was October of 2022, and I was grieving the loss of a romantic relationship. I vividly remember sitting in the backseat of my dad’s car, and thinking about the idea of writing a reverse harem novel (to put it simply, where the female main character has multiple boyfriends at once), which is something that was really interesting to me. I came up with the names of the main characters, more on that later, and started really thinking about what this novel would entail, and what it would be called. The next day, I started the Whimsy Document, which is where I write down each and every idea I have for the project (if you’re curious, this one is four pages long; they’re usually around one to two). And thus, “Healing x3” was born.
Brief interlude about the title before I get into the characters. When I was in my dad’s car thinking about this novel, I remember thinking about how her having two boyfriends was a lot easier, but I wanted to do three to challenge myself. And when I started writing out ideas about the project, and realized the female MC would be doing a lot of healing, I thought that “Healing x3” was quite witty, since she has three boyfriends who are helping her heal.
Now, onto the characters. Before I even wrote any ideas written down about the project, I came up with the archetypes for the male characters. This is word for word what the Whimsy Page says, “Olliver--her gentle giant; Flynn--her fierce protector; Vance--her saucy manwhore; Reese--her not so great ex.” Don’t worry, I changed Vance’s description in the synopsis, since I thought that might not market well. As for how I got those names…Olliver and Flynn both came from short stories I wrote years ago, because I loved the names and wanted to use them in a way that more people would see. As for Vance, I knew I wanted a name that started with a V. Around this time, I was really obsessed with Thomas Sanders’ series “Sanders Sides” on YouTube, and one of the characters’ names is Virgil, hence my want for a V name. I didn’t want Virgil or Vince, but Vance seemed to fit. As for Reese, I am a simple woman, and the first letter of his name is the first letter of my ex’s name. I’m not ashamed. Nora’s name…I don’t really remember how I came up with it, but I remember being worried that it was too similar to Cora, which is another one of my protagonists’ names, yet also decided I didn’t care.
Now, if you read the title of this post, you’ll realize that I’ve referred to this project as “Part One”. While I was plotting the first book, the one this post is about, I realized that I had too many ideas for the project, and that I would have to split it into two novels, and I found a natural place for that, so it was fine. Then, I was sitting in one of the common areas at my university, and decided that I wanted to add on my chronic illnesses to Nora, so I would have to make the series a trilogy. Which is actually really fitting, since there’s three boyfriends and three books. So, I wrote the ideas out for what I could pursue in the third book, decided there was enough, and started plotting it. Spoiler, I am still in the process of plotting it, but I digress.
Here are some unique things about this series. 1) I learned that when plotting a duology (since that’s what it was at the time), it’s easier just to plot both books at the same time, straight through. 2) The playlist for this project is different from my normal ones, but you’ll get more details on that later in the month. 3) This novel is the one with the most sexual content, and the most graphic sexual content. Let’s just say this one is 18+, and ignore the fact that I will never be able to look my grandmother in the eye again. 4) Each one of the covers in the trilogy is a different one of Nora’s boyfriends (Part One is Olliver, Part Two is Flynn, and Part Three is Vance).
Now, time for some statistics that no one cares about but me. Part One is 191,165 words, 660 pages, 1,000,245 characters (the amount of numbers and letters, I didn’t add a million characters to this novel), and I wrote it in 137 days (4 months and 17 days).
I hope you enjoyed reading this, and that you read the novel. I am sorry that it’s so long, and someone needs to take my keyboard away from me.
That's all for now, folks!
-C
No comments:
Post a Comment