@ChayWolf asks: What made you move from actual sci-if and Dystopian like in the Across the Universe series and The Body Electric to dealing more with mental illnesses and "real life"? I know you mentioned you grew up with a brother who had a mental illness, did he influence your decision to change the overall theme of your Novel?
I really, sincerely didn't intend to write a contemporary novel. I wanted to write a time travel adventure with a twist. I wanted to play with what was real and what wasn't, and in the original draft, you 100% didn't know which reality was "real." (In the final book, there's more a "lean" to what's real and not, but I purposefully put in some ambiguity so you could argue that the other reality is real.)
I did know as I was writing that Bo was based partly on my brother. I couldn't help that; they reminded me of each other. But it was during edits, when the story shifted so very much, that it developed into a much more personal book. And the closer it got to my real life, the closer the book got to reality in general.
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A World Without You
Teen FictionMAKE SURE YOU CHECK OUT THE END OF THIS SAMPLE FOR AN EXCLUSIVE WATTPAD QUESTION AND ANSWER WITH THE AUTHOR! After the unexpected loss of his girlfriend, a teenage boy suffering from delusions is convinced that he can travel through time to save he...
