Broken | ✓

AUTHOR'S NOTE

I started this book in May 2020 during the lockdown when we were all losing our minds. It felt right to end it in May too. Whew! it has been three years. Three years of procrastination. Damn! 

When I started writing this book, I didn't quite have a storyline. The voice didn't even feel like mine. It felt like I was ripping off someone. But as I continued to write, I found the storyline, I found my voice. Broken was a training ground for me. If you are the type that pays attention to the details, you must have seen my writing style fluctuate. It kept changing and started to find stability towards the end.  So this book is messy and kind of all over the place like my life. Lol

During the course of writing this book, I gave up writing, I even took this book down at some point. Thanks to imposter syndrome. Even though my procrastination is truly the reason it took this long to finish the book, I'm still going to share the blame with impostor syndrome. I wanted to quit writing this book, I really did but it kept gnawing at me even when I wrote other short stories and sort. Right now, I'm not proud of myself because this book is great like I said it's indeed messy, I'm proud that I finished it. I'm proud that I didn't quit. I was looking at the word count the other day and realized I had written over ninety thousand words. A whole 90k! What! I never thought I could write more than ten thousand words. This book is proof of my zeal. This book made me a better writer. So I'm celebrating that.

God knows I would never would have finished this book if I didn't have you guys. You guys were in the comments every update arguing about these characters I created, awaiting the next update. I never could have finished this if I didn't see how invested you guys were in this messy novel, if I didn't see how much you guys were rooting for Ireti and Jide. Thank you. Thank you. Support means the world to me especially as a creative who faces rejection every now and then. My heart lights up and leaps each time a person roots for me, each time a person picks interest in my work. In all honesty I immediately fall in love with that person. Lol Thank you so much for sticking with me. Thank you for staying through my once in a year update. A big thank you to my Burgundy, I can't seem to find her @ right now but when I do, I'll add it. This woman carried this book on her head. I love you so much my Burgundy, my creative journey is a bit easier because you are in it, steadily rooting for me.

Thank you again to everybody that glanced through this book, to everybody who read. Thank you. May you find a Jide who is not appalled by your scars and an Ireti who kisses those scars. Xoxo.