Remembering our Summer

QnA

I asked if you guys had any questions, so here I am answering them.

-How did you pick actors for your characters?

When I first started to write TSIWF I noticed that you could add a cast list to your book. So I spent hours researching google and google images. I tended to use IMDb as it proved the most helpful. You could type in say...brunette actresses under 25 into google and IMDb would show you a list of about 50 different people. But also a while back I posted a note apologising, because I had to put revision first. I also asked who they thought each character should be played by and I researched all their suggestions and formed a cast list from what I thought were the best suggestions.

-Do you ever wish your book/sequel could be made into a movie?

Hmmm, well maybe? I always get a bit worried about film adaptations of books as they usually miss SO MUCH OUT but I guess those films are based on books so maybe I shouldn't be so critical. I guess that would be pretty flipping awesome, I'd have to sit at the side-lines while they filmed it though so that they filmed everything to my standard. I don't think I would be too fussy about actors, because there might be some unknown actors that audition that look more like the characters than the cast list I picked. And the sequel would probably be hard for me to sit and watch without breaking down into tears (which is how I felt writing the break up by the way).

-Will there be a third book?

Hmm. Well see I have thought about a prequel involving Harvey and Tilly. But I just don't think it's needed. But I am working on something else that is related...which actually involves the next question.

-What happened to Matt before he met Hazel?

YAY ANNOUNCEMENT TIME WHOOP! Okay so I won't tell you right now what exactly happened to Matt. But I am going to be writing a short story called 'Not So Bad' about Matt. It will be on my profile very very soon! I hope you like it if you choose to read it, it will be about his past, a few chapters from ROS will be changed to his perspective and other scenes that are unseen. Okay that badly explained....yeah it's just his past, some of ROS briefly and his views and opinions and things.

-What inspires you to write?

I tend to write best when I have read a book beforehand, so the literature is fresh in my mind. I also like listening to music while writing, but it needs to be relevant. Happy chapter? Then I need an upbeat song. I like sometimes writing under low light late at night...call me picky, but that's now and again and I tend to get complaints about updating so late at night. Not happy with it? Well you don't have to read it as soon as I publish it. I'll probably also have a packet of Polos to snack on and my cat sat somewhere in the room, maybe a candle lit, a film on, or a YouTube video that I occasionally switch back to it. I would make the word document smaller and be able to watch a video whilst writing. Worked for me.

-What gave you the idea for the storyline of this book?

Whilst writing TSIWF I had all these ideas in my head, as soon as I finished I was quick to write them all down. I knew that Hazel and Dan were going to split up. I wanted Hazel to break up with Dan because when researching break ups all the quotes were about boys being heartbreakers and I wanted to break that trend. I wanted to play with Dan's emotion and sensitivity, I wanted to introduce a girlfriend for Ollie and a boy mate for Hazel. I wanted Hazel to have a friend that was a boy because I am really close to a boy and I talk to him about things that maybe I should talk to girls about, but he doesn't mind. I wanted Hazel to have that and that's when Matt came in. I'm not sure how it all became a book to be honest, I planned it all out roughly, deleting some scenes, writing some scenes in advance and tweaking them later on. I made a story that would be slightly darker than the first one.

-How much of the places that you wrote about are actually based on real life places?

Well the Isle of Wight is a real place, I went on holiday there thrice so I should now. The needles that Danzel visited in TSIWF was a real place, um....my mind's gone blank. A lot of it is formed from my imagination.

-How good did Dan get at playing the guitar and what songs can he play?

He's not bad. He knows one or two songs, I actually deleted a scene where he plays Beautiful by James Brown. Yeah, I think he knows a few, but I'm guessing by the epilogue he is rather good.

-Will you miss TSIWF/ROS?

Well, I tell you now, I won't miss the guilt of writing sad chapters, or the stress of people saying: UPDATE SOON after I've only just posted a chapter. But hey that's wattpad. OF COURSE I'LL MISS IT! I spent two years writing this little series! And...no, you know what I'll talk this more in the Final Author's Note.

FINAL AUTHOR'S NOTE->