Manassas Musings
i've got lots of work to do now!I really do want to thank everyone here. You guys have really been awesome! Thanks for all your help!
Now, i ask... tell me what you think!
I'd love to know your final thoughts!Now i have some random facts about my time writing the book
WARNING SPOILERS!
There were quite a few things that were spur of the moment, not planned on, with the book. you might find some of them quite surprising:
- the cross necklace - i was trying to figure out what i was going to write for the epilogue and because the person that i modeled Jacob after actually wears a cross, i had the sudden idea to put it in the book. originally it wasn't going to be that big of a thing, but it turned out to be one of the main staples!
- Rodney - i wanted someone he could tell and talk to about the whole situation, so as i was writing chapter 9, Rodney's character came into being. He has some aspects of the person jacob was modeled after, but they are amplified by a million haha
- James' return - originally i was just going to have Jake find out that he is related to him, but in the back of my mind i was playing with the idea of James coming back. Then when ~StrikeAMatch said he liked James' character, i solidified the idea to bring him back.
- James' army status - yeah, i didn't really plan on him being a spy or him being in both the Union and the Confederacy... It just happened. I was just trying to figure out why Confederates were coming to look for him and, well, a spy was born.
- Character switch - originally i was actually going to have James help Jacob to get rid of Kate, but then i decided to mix up the antagonist and protagonist ghost roles for the second time and have Kate actually become somewhat of a good guy.
- cross possession - I had no intension of keeping Kate around, locked inside the cross, but as i neared the end of the book, i thought it would be a good little twist...
- his dad - originally i was going to have his dad play more of a role, but he ended up just being one of the parts of the storyline that just made life seem more realistic.
- Prologue and epilogue - as some of you may remember, i was debating on the prologue being in third person, but originally i wasn't even going to have one... but since i had a prologue, i felt like i should have an epilogue as well... plus it gave me the opportunity tie up some loose ends and open new ones
One thing i want to point out that might not be very apparent to some ppl is the chapter titles. I had a running weather theme to them. if you notice, nearly all of them have to do with weather in some way, and the ones that don't often have double meanings... some of the weather ones have double meanings as well...
And since we're on the subject, i had some reoccurring themes that i hadn't really planned on... these are the ones i can think of:
- weather
- water
- coldness
- showers
- shirtless
- pizza
- family
- bed
- eating
If you can think of anymore just tell me
Uh... I can't think of anything else haha now i'm off to go find some agents, write a query letter, and revise! woohoo! the hard part! haha
Thnx again!
God Bless!
~Shelly~
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If you don't receive this back, nobody likes you, and they wish you'd stop bugging them!
If you receive this back 1 time, open up! Find more friends, enemies, or enemies pretending to be friends
If you receive this back 2 times, you're off to a good start! (Unless you sent it to yourself! That's cheating!)
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3- You should hug them in public! Paste it on their user page!
4- Random hugs are perfectly okay! (and sweet)
5- You should most definitely get started hugging right away
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your path's straight. ~Proverbs 3:5-6
~Shelly~
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If you want to be like me, just be yourself!
"Its well known that the cross is only a burden
With pains and trials
But then again how come my shoes are so light?
How come I can run for miles?
And still just love you..."
-Blindside
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your path's straight. ~Proverbs 3:5-6
~Shelly~
*Clubs* ~MartialArtsClub777 | =Jesus-loves-You
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If you want to be like me, just be yourself!
"Its well known that the cross is only a burden
With pains and trials
But then again how come my shoes are so light?
How come I can run for miles?
And still just love you..."
-Blindside
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~Shelly~
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