It's Thursday! And that means nothing to you. Usually I posted teasers on Tuesdays, but Tuesday was Christmas Eve and I spent the entire day last minute shopping and wrapping presents. Since I already have bad wrists, wrapping presents isn't that good for me, so I had to take a break from the computer, so I couldn't get my teaser up then.
I'm hoping to finish this novel by the end of the week. I've crossed 80,000 words, and I think I'm getting close to the end. I'm not quite sure how long this novel is going to be, so I'm not sure where the end is exactly. I don't have a synopsis written for the novel yet, but I guess I can start giving some more details away.
This book is written from Bryce and Lainey's (the main characters) POV. The prologue at the end of Reaching Retribution was written in Bryce's perspective and the first chapter is written in Lainey's. It is a stand-alone contemporary novel. At the moment, I'm still a little unsure as to whether or not is a Young Adult novel. This novel deals with some mature subject matter such as abuse, depression, suicide, cancer, etc. and there is some slight language. Nothing too bad though. I won't add in language unless it feels right for the character or the situation calls for it. If you read the prologue, you probably already know that though.
I'm hoping to have the synopsis written by next week. I have a Pinterest page that has some images of this novel if you want to see what some of my visual inspirations for this novel have been.
Anyway, here is the teaser from Redeeming Lainey.
This part is written from Lainey's perspective, and is unedited and subject to change before publication.
I don’t even know what emotions are running through my body at this moment. I don’t feel anything, but at the same time, I feel like I’m experiencing the whole emotion spectrum at once. Nothing makes sense. Nothing has turned out as planned.
Growing up, I used to watch a lot of Disney movies. Naïve to the ways of life, I watched those films as though they were the guide to my future. I thought that all I had to do was flip my long hair over my shoulder and bat my eyes and my life would turn out perfect. I’d find a handsome prince and live happily ever after. I remember playing dress-up with mom when I was six or seven years old, pretending that I was Ariel. Mom would take the sheets from my bed and tie them around me like Ariel’s make-shift dress when she first got her legs. I’d run around the house combing my hair with a fork singing “Under the sea” with my stuffed animal Flounder tucked under my arm, blissfully unaware that life doesn't happen like that.
I don’t even know if I believe in happy endings anymore. Maybe for other people, but I’m starting to believe that not everyone is destined for that kind of ending. Some of our endings aren’t so happily ever after. Some of us just get the after.
Thoughts? I promise to try and make some of the future teasers a little brighter, but it's going to be hard with this novel. This novel is supposed to make you feel. What you feel, I don't really care, but my goal is to make you experience something--to think about it even after it's over. This is a novel about overcoming the darkness of the past and finding light in the future. About finding redemption. It is nothing like The Prophesized Series, but I hope you'll give it a chance when it comes time to publish! It's my favorite book I've written so far, and I'm not completely finished with it yet.
As promised, here is another song that I've been listening to while writing this book:
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! Enjoy this time with your families, read a good book, watch lots of movies, laugh, have fun, etc! Thanks for reading my blog today :) You're awesome.
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