Ever wondered what inspired "The One Series"? Ever thought about the characters? This book will give you all the details on this series, from its origins to the inspirations. There will be major spoilers, but go spoil yourself anyway!
"We're just high school teens. We're different people (wealthy; popular/mean kids; popular/nice kids; rebels; outsiders), but united with one dream: Become the world's biggest American pop band since the Black Eyed Peas. Through struggles with identity, personal issues, finding acceptance, love found and lost, fighting for our dreams, betrayal, and lineup changes, we'll make it though. Even if the end result is risking our own lives. We are The One."
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That was the original blurb for the entire series. Is it still relevant to the version of The One Series? For the most part, but there are no lineup changes. Well, there was no instances of people being replaced by new people.
Anyway, this blurb was made when Wattpad had a forum. One of the sections was "Share Your Story." People would post ads and stuff like crazy. Banners, graphics, covers, trailers, you name it! I was one of those who went crazy to get people to read my series. Then Wattpad took it down, splitting into different genres. You'd have to be really lucky to be one of the first ones to post up their ad. I would even lose sleep just to achieve this, but I had to stop. I would have work the next day. Turns out social media marketing and joining book clubs were the best way to go.
As you can tell in the graphic above, UTurn had a slightly different lineup and faceclaims. It made sense, at the time, as the people in those photos were in the early 20s. Most of them were teenagers when those photos were taken, so it fit the characters' ages as the series progressed. Now they're all in their 30s, so it wouldn't make sense to use them. Instead, I'm using a much younger set of faceclaims. Of course, for the official Amazon version of my series, I'm using free creative commons photos to be my characters on the book covers.
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The Original Profiles:
So, I used to make profiles for my characters before I would begin a story. Whether it was on a fan forum or on here, that's what I would do. I do see some authors do that here. When I began to work on The One Series, I decided against posting the profiles. I did write them, but I never uploaded them. The closest thing I've done was make character cards.
After almost 10 years, here are the profiles! Keep in mind that the series has completely changed since I made this. Also, the lineup has changed, and certain characters aren't in this profile post. There's also a character who might seem similar to current one. I'll explain that in a bit, along with the other characters. Oh, and you're also getting the character cards for both the original and the updated faceclaims!
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