The Boyfriend Sitter ✓

BONUS: fun facts and spoiler-full Q&A

Firstly, thank you SO much for 100k reads! I'm so overjoyed and grateful for all of your support, it makes me so happy to know people are out there enjoying my work. It really drives me to write. I'm currently drafting my next work and I'm realising how much I've learnt from the process behind writing and sharing TBS. I love this platform and the community, and my heart absolutely swells with the love you've given my work.

Anyway, I've answered some questions and shared some fun facts below to reflect on the story, the other bonuses will be alternate POVs/character scenes in complete narrative.

Again, thank you so much!!

Ann ❤️

Some fun facts about the story!!

The Official Felix Wink Count: 12

The first thing I ever wrote in Joss's character profile: "I want Joss' character to represent a young womanfeeling oppressed, and becoming a multi-faceted being. Joss has many'personalities'"

And for Penelope: "Emotional, dramatic and narcissistic."

And, well, Felix: "Felix was the person who wore black to a white party, had a constantly fixed cocky demeanor and an Instagram page that satiated every dark aesthetic fantasy. And now he was wearing an apron in his shanty-chic kitchen." (I really didn't need much more here...)

And some of your questions...

Do you have any plans to expand The Boyfriend Sitter? - whatwouldanidiotdo

All of my works on Wattpad are first drafts (which is why they're free!). I would love to--and have ideas to--expand TBS into a fully-fledged novel, possibly adding in another POV so we can get some info that Josie couldn't really narrate (Ella's secret, the fallout in the friend group etc). But, I have pretty limited writing time and unless I get compensation or passion/inspiration for the story again, it's likely a second draft won't be created anytime soon while I focus on other projects. That being said, it'll probably happen sometime in the future!

How long did it take to write the whole book? - -celestialjimin

I think it took 3-4 months, but I wrote a good 70% of it just in July. I set the goal of writing something every day--whether it be big or small, and after a week or so my productivity and inspiration really lifted. I think when I was writing the climax of the story I wrote 6,800 words in one day, which is absolutely insane!!

Has your general plot for the story been the same since the beginning, or did you originally have a different ending planned? - insistency

The general plot has been, yes! I started off with a super broad plot of Penelope tricking Josie and having this sick sort of possession dynamic with Cole and the others. I also had Josie being married planned, but the delivery and circumstances of this changed, and I'm still not completely sure whether I'm satisfied by how it came out.

I also knew Felix and Josie would be together, I just had to keep y'all in suspense (wink).

I think I've learnt a lot about my writing with this story, and that's to give room to build on plot points instead of just pantsing the entire time. A lot of my favorite scenes came to me randomly as I was going and it really motivated me to write them and feel more connected with the characters to have the freedom, but the structure itself gave me something to foresee when I sat down to write (for example with HSHL I had no idea what I'd write about when I started a chapter <??> and that just wasn't working for me to complete a novel after that).

Why does Sebastian's boyfriend hate Josie? - diordrabbles

Remy dislikes Josie because he and Sebastian are very much funded and involved in the Crawford family. I wouldn't call Remy purely a *Gold-digger*, but he definitely has a penchant for the finer things Sebastian can offer him. Because of this, he saw Josie's conflict with her family as taking them for granted and being entitled--he couldn't relate or fathom her desire to run away.

What gave you the idea/inspiration to write the book? - xAvaReedx

I was in a bit of a rut when it came to writing. I'd written HSHL and slowly finished Awake, but I just was in a funk when it came to finishing a story. I had heaps of first chapters - Mutual Interest, Little Red Lies, Claim to Fame.... so many half-drafts. I was also thrown into the tumultuous realms of editing, and man that taught me a lot but it also drained my creative energy. When Clique Bait was done and dusted, I told myself I was gonna write something, and I was going to finish it no matter what.

I'd had the idea of a college story involving spying, and that's about it. Then, I was walking by the bulletin board on campus one day and it kind of started unfolding, a poster stub, a supermodel paranoid about her boyfriend, a girl undercover... it lit that lil spark I needed. The next hook for me was Felix, because he is basically the embodiment of everything I am attracted to-wit, no-nonsense energy, hella soft spots and vulnerability.

Is Penelope ever going to get exposed? Will everyone else in the friend group get a happily ever after? - AblueMandaPanda

I wanted the ending to be satirically realistic. It was a bit of an f-you to entertaining other people's drama. I'm a pretty anti-drama person in real life, and even though my stories are super dramatic, I sort of wanted a twist at the end that brought it back to reality. For me, that was Penelope shrugging off Josie and her obsession with Cole and instead projecting that to Nic, and Josie left with nothing to really hang on to. It was also Poppy feeling angry and betrayed at her best friend, brother, and girlfriend, instead of just going with it for a happy end.

So in conclusion, Penelope won't get exposed by Josie-maybe the next persons she screws over, though. Josie's conclusion is never satisfactory, but it's enough to move on, especially since she's in a better place with Seb and Felix. It's more realistic to have to sit with this grudge against someone and make peace with it on your own, you don't get/have to take revenge every time to move on, and that's sort of the lesson here in the most taking-the-piss way.

The friend group does get a happily ever after! But, Poppy needs time. I won't get super into it now*, but it isn't healed overnight.

*I had a lot of questions about Jada and Cole and Ella and Poppy, and I'm going to be covering those in the next bonus!