Last time I talked about where the
initial idea for New Sight came from.
(Spoilers—if you haven't read to the
middle of the book)
Kids addicted to magic.
I don't even remember how many ideas I
went through. A friend at work used to run one of those outdoor camp
places where people send their behavioral and drug addict kids. For a
while I thought that's what the story should be about. But my mind
had it set in a totally fantasy world where those blue people from
Avatar kept flying through on their dragon things.
BOTH of those things stressed me out to
the point where I had to put the aside. While a story about kids in a
magic rehab camp sounds awesome, it felt too dramatic for me.
If you don't know me, you should be
informed that I'm NEVER dramatic. Well, hardly ever. Only when I
don't get exactly what I want. You understand, yes?
Anyway, in my heart and mind I loved
both of the above ideas, but as I started to write, the story became
so much more about the adventure of the kids finding out about their
magic and all of the horror, wonder and issues it would lead to. I'm
an action addict, and the emotional side of the story kept dragging
it down.
In my mind anyway. I'm not the one to
write that story.
So I scrapped the totally fantasy world
and set it in our world. Magic is almost dead, hardly anyone knows
about it, and those that do should not be trifled with. This made
writing the novel so much easier. Introducing a whole new world takes
time and experience, neither of which I had in abundance when I
started. Simplicity won that round, but I don't think an almost
normal world takes away from the story.
Y'all will have to tell me after you
read the book!
I do admit to a little bit of sadness
when I gave up the flying dragon things. I'll have to pull them out
in a different novel.
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