Ask the Author: Chantilly White
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Chantilly White
I'm working on Snow Angel, which is the first book in an all-new New Adult contemporary romance series called High-Desert Hearts, which is set in a romanticized version of my hometown in California's high desert region, called Pasodoro.
Snow Angel is a friends-to-lovers romance (my favorite!), and while it starts and ends in Pasodoro, this story mostly takes place while they're on a skiing vacation in Utah.
Melinda and Jacob have been best friends their whole lives, so when more-than-friendly feelings take them by surprise, it's a huge shift in their relationship. Even worse, their parents and families are best friends, too, so a romantic relationship between the two of them has the potential to ruin not only their personal friendship, but their entire social circle if it ends badly. And that's a huge risk... :)
Snow Angel is a friends-to-lovers romance (my favorite!), and while it starts and ends in Pasodoro, this story mostly takes place while they're on a skiing vacation in Utah.
Melinda and Jacob have been best friends their whole lives, so when more-than-friendly feelings take them by surprise, it's a huge shift in their relationship. Even worse, their parents and families are best friends, too, so a romantic relationship between the two of them has the potential to ruin not only their personal friendship, but their entire social circle if it ends badly. And that's a huge risk... :)
Chantilly White
It's boring, but honestly... read as much as you can, write as much as you can, finish what you start (I need to remind myself of that one often, as I have ooh-shiny disease and will hop projects faster than you can say squirrel), and study craft.
Don't let anyone tell you how to write or that there's only one way to do it--well, there *is* only one way and it's *your way*. :) But it can take a lot of practice and experimentation to figure out what your way is. Be patient with yourself. Play with words, figure out what works for you, what clicks.
Above all, have fun with it. Writing is hard work, for sure, but if it's not fun, too, what's the point?
Don't let anyone tell you how to write or that there's only one way to do it--well, there *is* only one way and it's *your way*. :) But it can take a lot of practice and experimentation to figure out what your way is. Be patient with yourself. Play with words, figure out what works for you, what clicks.
Above all, have fun with it. Writing is hard work, for sure, but if it's not fun, too, what's the point?
Chantilly White
My work-in-progress, Snow Angel, was inspired in part by reading a short story by Anthea Lawson, A Countess For Christmas, which I just loved. I had it in mind to do a story of a similar length, right around 6000 - 8000 words. I abandoned the story I was working on at the time and dove in to Snow Angel, thinking I would write it fairly quickly and get right back to the other book.
One-hundred-thousand words later... Yep, the other book is still waiting. Snow Angel is almost done (and is scheduled for a late-September release), book two in the newly developed series is already started, and Snow bears absolutely no resemblance to the original idea! But it all started with a little spark from Countess. :)
One-hundred-thousand words later... Yep, the other book is still waiting. Snow Angel is almost done (and is scheduled for a late-September release), book two in the newly developed series is already started, and Snow bears absolutely no resemblance to the original idea! But it all started with a little spark from Countess. :)
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