NeverSeen

One Simple Idea

The beginning of NeverSeen came from a simple idea: I had a story to tell. At the time, I thought it was a story I wanted to tell other people; that was true then, and it is still true now. But as I scrapped concepts that never panned out, rewrote conversations and scenes, and slogged through a plot that refused to make itself clear, I realized something about this story I was writing. I was writing for an audience of one: myself. If I didn’t enjoy the story I was telling, why would anyone else? If I could churn out a tacky dystopian supernatural romance, just like hundreds of other authors, then what was the point? My simple idea quickly exploded into something much bigger-a world of faeries and fantastic beasts of my own making, a world teaming with equal doses of magic and technology, a world where anything I imagined could become real. My simple idea became a complicated realm…a Faeland realm. Suddenly, it was not so hard to imagine my simple idea unfolding into a series of seven epic novels. And it all started with a simple phrase: “My eyes flew open as I choked on thick, black smoke...” #simpleidea #bigplans #amwriting #FaelandLegends