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Jonathan M. Wenzel
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Jonathan M. Wenzel
Mostly I just let my mind wander and watch the scenes...Then, if they're decent, I'll write em down.
Jonathan M. Wenzel
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(view spoiler)[Most of the editing I had to do was grammar/punctuation. There wasn't a whole lot of revising that needed to be done. I had spent off and on around ten years on the book and had gone back to different scenes many times by the first complete draft was finished.
There were really only a few major(ish) things that I changed after the first draft.
1. The kites could speak initially – I had them set up as a comic relief of sorts, but after reading it, I felt that it took too much away from the realism of the story, and they just became a joke. So instead, I made them quasi intelligent, but still very much instinctual animals.
2. Peter had an uncle. Ellie had a husband, Charles I think his name was, but he seemed oafish and felt like a waste of a character.
3. There was a fourth race – fauns, those mythical half deer half man things. But I wanted the book to feel as if it almost could exist in real life – fairies and mermaids, while a stretch, are still grounded in rumors and stories. So they quickly got the boot. They also didn't really have a strong role in the story arch, so removing them wasn't a huge deal. I feel that the kite/mer/fairy feud-triangle worked better anyways. (hide spoiler)]
There were really only a few major(ish) things that I changed after the first draft.
1. The kites could speak initially – I had them set up as a comic relief of sorts, but after reading it, I felt that it took too much away from the realism of the story, and they just became a joke. So instead, I made them quasi intelligent, but still very much instinctual animals.
2. Peter had an uncle. Ellie had a husband, Charles I think his name was, but he seemed oafish and felt like a waste of a character.
3. There was a fourth race – fauns, those mythical half deer half man things. But I wanted the book to feel as if it almost could exist in real life – fairies and mermaids, while a stretch, are still grounded in rumors and stories. So they quickly got the boot. They also didn't really have a strong role in the story arch, so removing them wasn't a huge deal. I feel that the kite/mer/fairy feud-triangle worked better anyways. (hide spoiler)]
Jonathan M. Wenzel
I'm currently working on book two and three in the Neverland series....I should actually be doing that now instead of answering questions :)
Jonathan M. Wenzel
There was one main time I got writer's block. I remember staring at the screen having no clue what to write about. My Word document had been in the standard 8.5x11 format with Times font and standard spacing. So, on a whim, I reformatted the document to the page dimensions I knew the final draft would have. Font type, spacing, margins. Then I tried to write again, and the writer's block was gone – I immediately wrote the fairy night patrol chapter)
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