In honour of Healing x3 Part Two becoming available this Friday, I thought I would give you some behind the scenes details about my process writing and editing this novel.
The first thing that’s unique with this novel is that I actually plotted this one in the same outline as Part One. It was basically just one long outline that I split at the ending cliffhanger of Part One. Speaking of that cliffhanger, I apologize for how mean it was, however, I had to get you back for Part Two, didn’t I? On a similar note, I started writing this book right as I finished the first one. Basically, I plotted and wrote as if it was one long novel, and then just split it in two.
Editing this novel was…a process. I started editing it last fall with the intention of releasing it at the end of 2024. That obviously didn’t happen, since it’s February, and there’s a few reasons for that. One, balancing NaNoWriMo was a challenge, so editing was not a priority. Second, I really hate editing, so when I was trying to make time for my writing, editing was the first thing to slip. It got to the point with my second round of edits--where I’m just applying my notes--that I put a podcast on and forced myself to edit until I got it done. I also got my wisdom teeth out in the middle of editing, so that made it more of a challenge.
Another thing that was different with this novel is the amount of rewrites in it. What I mean by this is that there were supposed to be more intimate scenes in this novel. However, while writing it, I went through something that made writing those scenes more challenging than normal. I did keep two of the ones that I had to go back and write months after the first draft was done. I did also cut two of them and replace them with something else, since it was easier for me to write a less graphic scene for. It was a hard decision to make, since the first one has many a graphic intimate scenes in it, but I did what was good for me, and in this case, it was cutting some of those scenes. Don’t worry, I want to make sure that one of them makes an appearance in Part Three.
And that’s the last thing I want to bring up. There is actually a Part Three to this novel, currently in the works. It still follows the same characters, just a little way in the future. There’s so many things that I wish I could tell you about Part Two, but given that it's coming out on the 28th, I know that I’m the only one who has read it at this point, so I don’t want to spoil anything.
It’s not really a spoiler, but for those of you who didn’t love Vance in the first novel, just know that some of my favourite scenes of his are in this one.
That's all for now, folks!
-C
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