I had just seen the newest Batman trilogy when I was creating my book Darkest Before Dawn. One of the characters in the movie said, "The night is always darkest just before the dawn." or something like that. Those words got stuck in my head so when thinking of what to name my new book, that came to mind. Hence, the title Darkest Before Dawn. Of course, I have to tie that into my book somehow. That was actually pretty easy because of the storyline. Plus, I wanted the book to be the beginning of a trilogy and the title also worked for that. I quickly decided to name the second book Light of Dawn, but I didn't know what I would call the third book.
I finished Darkest Before Dawn and had even begun Light of Dawn last year. When I began to exam Darkest Before Dawn more closely I discovered that I had introduced too many characters. I was trying to focus on too many characters in one book. Seeing that I needed to fix that I went back to where I'd begun to stray away from the original plot and deleted everything else. That erased over half of my book. I decided that I would redo everything in the book from that point on. It was a task that I didn't care to do and so I decided to take short break from writing which resulted in a year long break.
I began writing other things, but this was the beginning of a long dry spell in writing for me. Every book I began to write, failed. During November I gave a half hearted attempt at writing 50,000 words in a month for NaNoWriMo, but I only got 6,000 words. The book I tried was called Invisible. Needless to say I did not attempt to continue writing in that book. I tried writing with Ginny in her book Classified, but that went down hill. That's when I tried Blue Jay and then Remember Ariel, improving my writing a little as I went. I was trying to reach 45,000 words in a month during Camp Nano when I found myself preferring to edit the book rather than write it. That's when I realized it might be time for me to pick up Darker Before Dawn again.
During that year I had tried to edit Darkest Before Dawn a few times and got bored with it every time. This time I began by rewriting it from the very first chapter. I'm following the same basic storyline as before, but it's a little different. I considered only writing Darkest Before Dawn and then moving on to something else, but decided against that. It's now the first book of the Celestial Trilogy.
The main character in Darkest Before Dawn is Hannah Dawn Scot, but she goes by Dawn. Her name has no connection to the title, that was purely a coincidence.
I wrote a short, incomplete, and kind of lame synopsis that doesn't really tell you much about the book, but it was fun to write so I'll share it anyway. Synopsis:
Adam Smith, a man with a difficult past who endeavors to face it again. Dawn Scot, a brave girl who dares to venture into the unknown.The two virtual strangers will go on a life altering journey and only at the end will one's deepest secret be revealed. But will it's revolution cost another their life?
I finished Darkest Before Dawn and had even begun Light of Dawn last year. When I began to exam Darkest Before Dawn more closely I discovered that I had introduced too many characters. I was trying to focus on too many characters in one book. Seeing that I needed to fix that I went back to where I'd begun to stray away from the original plot and deleted everything else. That erased over half of my book. I decided that I would redo everything in the book from that point on. It was a task that I didn't care to do and so I decided to take short break from writing which resulted in a year long break.
I began writing other things, but this was the beginning of a long dry spell in writing for me. Every book I began to write, failed. During November I gave a half hearted attempt at writing 50,000 words in a month for NaNoWriMo, but I only got 6,000 words. The book I tried was called Invisible. Needless to say I did not attempt to continue writing in that book. I tried writing with Ginny in her book Classified, but that went down hill. That's when I tried Blue Jay and then Remember Ariel, improving my writing a little as I went. I was trying to reach 45,000 words in a month during Camp Nano when I found myself preferring to edit the book rather than write it. That's when I realized it might be time for me to pick up Darker Before Dawn again.
During that year I had tried to edit Darkest Before Dawn a few times and got bored with it every time. This time I began by rewriting it from the very first chapter. I'm following the same basic storyline as before, but it's a little different. I considered only writing Darkest Before Dawn and then moving on to something else, but decided against that. It's now the first book of the Celestial Trilogy.
The main character in Darkest Before Dawn is Hannah Dawn Scot, but she goes by Dawn. Her name has no connection to the title, that was purely a coincidence.
I wrote a short, incomplete, and kind of lame synopsis that doesn't really tell you much about the book, but it was fun to write so I'll share it anyway. Synopsis:
Adam Smith, a man with a difficult past who endeavors to face it again. Dawn Scot, a brave girl who dares to venture into the unknown.The two virtual strangers will go on a life altering journey and only at the end will one's deepest secret be revealed. But will it's revolution cost another their life?