Wild: A Retrospectacular!

[naomi_jay]

So Wild is in the process of being formatted ready for the Kindle, and because I've been obsessing endlessly about it forever and ever I'm pretty excited about finally publishing it, I ended up going back through my LJ archive last week and digging up loads of old entries I'd made about it. Some of them are quite amusing in retrospect; others are just sad in a "wow, was I still talking about that then?"

In honour of the five years, eleven rewrites, two agents, two boyfriends, two housemates, countless tropical fish, three jobs, and numerous lesser stories Wild has outlasted, I'm going to be reposting some of these old entries. Share my obsession! Let's begin with the very first entry I ever posted about Wild:

June 14^th 2007

Figuring it was probably best to hold off on more revision until I heard back from Ricia, I jumped into a new project - Wild. Usually my new projects fall apart around the 5k mark, for whatever reason. This one is going suspiciously smoothly, with no immenient sign of abandonment. I'm loving it so far - it's got werewolves, drug addicts and quests for redemption. I love my protagonist, Lizzie. She's sharp, cynical and has a wealth of problems to deal with. It's going to be dark and uncomfortable and I can already see a sequel shaping up. So Wild is go!

Wow. June 2007. I was 24 years old and convinced I'd never be able to write anything that wasn't Scarlett-related. I'd never finished anything longer than a short story that wasn't about Scarlett, and since my then-agent couldn't sell my Scarlett novel, I figured I'd better try something else and prove to myself I wasn't a one-trick-pony. I love that I thought Wild was going "suspiciously smoothly" already. Clearly my subconscious recognised trouble when I wrote it.

Tomorrow: Nome suspects that her magnum opus may need some editing... 

Comments

[mermaiden.livejournal.com]

This is awesomesauce~ :) I can't wait until Wild comes out! You'll be putting in on BN.com, too?

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

^_^ I'm going to get it everywhere I can, but Barnes & Noble need a US bank account for you to publish through them, which is a bit of a pain for me! Hopefully that'll change in the future.

[h-a-holmes.livejournal.com]

Go Wild! It so deserves to be published and take over the world! Lol. Really looking forward to reading it, and the cover is gorgeous. :)

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Lol, in my head it's already the most unstoppably awesome book ever... I'll be pleased if even one person tells me they like it to be honest!

[blythe025.livejournal.com]

Love seeing the flash of the past. It's always interesting to recall the process that went into the piece. :)

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Definitely - interesting for me to read back and look at how it all made me feel too!