You're Not Enough

Q&A

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Q&A and pm' ed me questions

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What made you write a book about mental health?

So I read alot of books on Wattpad, and I rarely... no, actually, I have never come across a fictional book that had a mental health plot. Now maybe I just haven't stumbled across one, but as far as I know, there isn't one that goes into depth about mental health, so that was one reason why I wanted to write a book about it. Also, I wanted to write something that people with mental health could relate to.

Something we could have.

How is your book not cliche?

Man, let me tell you, its really hard, Im actually in the process of editing my book now, and I came across something sooo cliche, I don't even remember putting it in there. When Ryder first came to Jayda's house, or something, he had a lip ring; I swear I do not remember putting that in there; I definitely took it out because that's just sooo cliche; I feel like every bad boy in a Wattpad book has a lip ring and tattoos, so I felt like I needed to choose one of the other, so I decided to let the piercings go and keep the tattoos. Also, I really try my best to just like switch the norm of things and change it; my book is life-based; cliche things don't happen in real life, so yeah, I just write what I see every day and put a twist on it.

Would you describe Ryder as a bad boy? And Jayda as a good girl?

I really hate when people use the words "Bad boy" or "Good girl" I never understand what that means, like what makes someone a "bad boy" or a "good girl." I do get why and how it started; the image of a "good girl" is reading books, being quiet, sensitive, and smart, oh, and let's not forget VIRGIN.

Then you have the bipolar boy with tattoos and piercings and anger issues, and abusive behavior.

But just because they have those things, those personalities, does it really make them bad? Or good?

For me, it's a no; I wouldn't call Ryder a bad boy because, as we've seen, even though it took almost the whole book, Ryder has a good heart. He's just conflicted, and as for Jayda, she's a good person, she's sweet, selfless, she's also a girl who is also conflicted and just trying to survive the horrors of being a teenager.

What's up with the whole seizures thing Jayda has? Why did you put that in there?

So alot of the things Jayda has I have; that's why I'm able to write about it in detail because I have been through it. I know it's probably kind of confusing the way I talked about it in the book, im definitely going to simplify it when I get there for editing. But uhm sutto seizures are seizures that are brought on by stress; the whole NYC trip was extremely stressful for Jayda. That's what bought them on; apart of it was the medication to.

When I had my first seizures, I was on anti-depressants; the doctors swore up and down. It wasn't the medication and that it was just stress causing the seizures. *rolls eyes

Till this day we don't know. Well, I do, because when I was taking the medication, I was having the seizures. The doctors just kept saying it was stress, so they advised to keep taking the medication; I eventually stopped taking it. My mom was like, let's see what happens when we take you off of it. Long story short, I stopped taking the medicine and haven't had a seizure since. Hope that helped; we will talk about this more in the second book.

You mentioned in your announcements that you kept rewriting endings, and it was hard for you to choose one. Could you share what alternate endings you had and why you choose the one you did?