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@selah-chelyah Oooh! Yeah, I’d love to check it out. Can’t promise I’ll be able to read it all very quickly (busy life keeps me from reading often times) but when I do, I’ll let you know!

All your stories sound super fun and unique! So do your characters! Could you tell me more about Unquenchable, if you’re comfortable with that? It sounds super cool with the deserts and tribes and stuff!

@steward-of-the-pen Oh my gosh, I love Lotro already just from reading that. He sounds super cool! And so does his older brother! 😉 Love me a good secret villain!

Ah… the story of Wilbur. The first thing you need to know is that my characters tend to… really come to life, if that makes sense. They’re very real to me, thus how this whole thing even happened.

Alright, way back in 2015, I decided to try and do NaNoWriMo for the first time in November. The book I decided on was written in first person, and was about these kids who had committed crimes/knew Government secrets and were in a secret ‘prison’ of sorts. Dr. J. Brown ran this prison, and was a psychologist interested in what happened to these teens that led them down the path of crime.

(Here’s the first paragraph :P)

If you’ve been sent to “Blackfalls Institute for Troubled Children” then it’s safe to assume you’ve made some pretty ‘decent-sized’ mistakes in your life.

And by ‘decent-sized’ I mean you’ve messed up so badly that even if your parents could visit you, they wouldn’t go near you with a ten-foot pole. So awfully, that top notch Government Officials have gathered together to discuss the issue that is you. So horribly that, even if you could speak up in your defense, the sweetest of lies wouldn’t have made a dent in you case, let alone the actual truth.

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Anyways, the ‘plot’ of the story was Wilbur trying to escape and get back to his dad. Through specific plot points, you as the reader begin to realize that–through the different things Wilbur and the other characters say, that his father is actually not at all who Wilbur is telling you/the reader he is (and is, in fact, the whole reason Wilbur committed the crimes he did in the first place and ended up in prison). The entire point of this book was to show how easy it is to lie to yourself, especially when you’re not in a good community of people holding you to the truth.

I, however, made two common mistakes.

The first one was I created Wilbur to have an utter disdain for any authority ever, except his father.

The second was I immediately showed him the plot of the book and basically told him how his life was going to turn out.

Wilbur, being Wilbur, didn’t like this very much and proceeded to completely wreck my book. He fought with me every time I tried to write him–which made writing difficult since it was supposed to be from his perspective. Eventually, I had to give up and throw the draft of what I had in a lock box, in fear of him finding and burning all my hard work.

Eventually, as I moved onto other projects, I realized Wilbur had hitched a ride and was now following me around, trying to 1. ruin the reputation of my stories and 2. start a revolution against me to revolt and make me never write again.

And that is how Wilbur came to be XD