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Leigh, why is Harley so awkward in the beginning of TTAF?
A: Aren't we all at that age? :D

Leigh wrote: "Let's see how this works...

Leigh, why is Harley so awkward in the beginning of TTAF?
A: Aren't we all at that age? :D"

Another sequel question. I don't have a sequel, but I have started a companion with Ashley Lockett as the MC. My wonder is should it be funny like TTAF or more serious? Hmm...

Do you start with an outline of where you want the story to go or do you just let if flow like free verse?

Amanda wrote: "Do you start with an outline of where you want the story to go or do you just let if flow like free verse?"

Hi, Amanda! Great question! My style has actually evolved the more books I've written. On my first two, I did the "free verse" style. To a large extent, that's also how I wrote TTAF, but I started making more notes for it as I went.

For ROUGE, I opened Word and typed up a 1-page summary of the whole story (beginning, conflict, climax, resolution, end). Then I sat down and started writing with that loose outline in my head. It changed some; I added some things, didn't do others. But the basic story stayed the same.

That's also how I "planned" the book I wrote last spring (a YA sci-fi); and it's how I expect to handle the sequel to ROUGE.

So far that seems to work for me!

Thanks for asking! :o) <3