The end of AMSB
It was sometime in the middle of 2007 when the idea of a young woman who loses her memory and the love of her life dropped into my little factory of imagination. I tried to imagine what it would be like for the guy, who’s loved this girl with all his heart, to suddenly have her die in a terrible accident, only to discover that she’s alive after returning to his home town years later.
I was originally going to write this story in spanish as an exercise so I can perfect my writing. Had I not changed my mind, this story would have been called Despierta, Mi Bella Durmiente and Heaven, would have been called Aurora (Ha, see the connection? Just like in the Disney movie). I completely abandoned the story late in 2007 and focused on re-writing and “operating” on the novel that I’d been working on Shadows of Mystery, which needed serious tweaking and re-structuring. It wasn’t until mid 2008 that I remembered about AMSB and chose to write it in English – just for fun.
Right.
What was supposed to be a 10 chapter story immediately turned into 15. The characters I thought I had sketched out perfectly pulled a 180 on me and next thing I knew, I ended up with a 36 chapter full blown romance novel. I know the writing might not be perfect now, but that is why when some time passes (about a year or so), I’ll simply go back and re-read the story with fresh eyes and with a red pen in my hand, ready for corrections and re-writes. The story won’t change (unless I tend to publish it and an Agent tells me otherwise), but I’m sure some paragraphs will stick out and I’ll be like “OK, this NEEDS to change!”
New Projects
With Awake, My Sleeping Beauty coming to an end, I already have a fresh new story in mind, which I plan to start writing sometime in August of this year and with the first posting being around October 2009, just like AMSB was done last year.
I won’t reveal too much about this new story I’m going to write. All I will say is that it tells the story a young woman who dreams of succeeding as a Painter and seems to have everything going for her, a remarkable talent with paint, loving parents, a great education, and perfect health, but all that quickly changes when life takes a turn for the worst for her and her twin brother.
