After a little over a year, Fix You has been updated. Check out the chapter here.
Come by again tomorrow for some behind the scenes posts!
Oh how differently this story could have been…
Very early in my writing process I had outlined Shattered in it’s entirety and probably the half of Fix You and I was facing a dilemma. I had two ways the story could turn. Two ideas that were both very much stuck in my head and that I couldn’t shake off. The outcome of the story depended on this specific scene. I had no idea what to do.
The turning point was: Damon leaves in Fix You, and Bella feels betrayed by Stefan and Elena and she is forced to face the Cullens alone. Time goes by and Damon doesn’t show up, crap happens, she kills again, she is forced to go on the animal diet, she starts talking with Jasper, and Damon is nowhere to be seen.
How would Damon make his comeback?
Origins
A few years ago I started this little project out of boredom and having a lot of time on my hands. I had a job that didn’t really need me to be occupied 100% of the day and a very vivid imagination.
Ever since I can remember I’ve had a very vivid imagination. Mostly I’d take the things that I had seen on movies or tv shows and somehow imagine that I was the leading character and that all that stuff was happening to me.
Life and changes
Fair warning, this post has nothing to do with writing stories. It’s more of a “Where’s your head right now Ally?” kind of post.
About writing, procrastination and writer’s block
Ok, confession time: It’s been a while since I’ve sat down and really concentrated on writing Fix You. Over the course of the last few months, or year (as a reader pointed out in a review not so long ago), I have opened the Word doc for Chapter 20 of Fix You less than 5 times. It normally went something like this:
Ahem… Hi there
This question. I’ve been getting this exact question a lot, A LOT, in the last few weeks. To anyone worried that I had probably died or something, I am very much alive., I haven’t had any accidents, the family is great, I haven’t suffered a dramatic case of heartache, I’m perfectly healthy and contrary to popular belief I’m still here. I’ve been absent. Very absent. I am aware of that, but I swear I have a good few reasons behind it.
The other question I’ve been getting a lot is… “Are you ever going to finish Fix You?” And to that my lovely readers, the answer is… Continue reading
a stream of consciousness 