I’m at the home stretch and yet I’m still learning new things about my characters. It’s kind of insane how much goes into building characters and a believable back drop for those characters. They become tangible people in your head with real thoughts and feelings. Suddenly you’re psychoanalyzing your characters motive’s even though you’re the one who came with everything in the first place.

There’s one particular character who is really struggling with everything that is going on. I’m a panster so it was pretty much when the character came into fruition, and I actually got to her POV is when I started to get to know her. Pretty quickly it became apparent to me that she felt very stuck in her life and like every choice she had never made wasn’t truly hers to begin with.

Given that this novel is very heavily influenced by prophecies, hence it being called Project Prophecy, it makes sense that at least one character would feel almost duped of choice and would feel like everything in there had been chosen for them. If it’s predestined, then what’s the point in even attempting to fake choosing.

The first book won’t have heartbreak for this character, and the surrounding characters that relate directly to her. But the second book I think is going to delve further into the relationships that she has and what they mean to her. I think there might be a twist that I’ll be putting in too that will honestly further drive home her feelings of not having true control over her life.

I am so excited for people to read this. I’ve been writing some iteration of this concept for a very long time, and I just can’t believe what the idea has turned into. I love the story so much and I personally just think it’s really cool so I’m hoping others agree. I hold no assumptions in how well it will do given I would be a first-time author, but regardless, I’m excited to let people read my first.

Okay, now that the sappy heartfelt bull crap is over, word count update!

63,145

Yeah, that’s right! I’m at 63 thousand words written. Heck yeah!

Stay writing so you can make younger you proud.