..you have the ending and you love the ending so you already love the characters of your creation...

..I’m writing in little bits because I never know how many characters I’ve used and then it’s that thing where it can all get too complicated and stressful in separating and coping and pasting etc..

..and you’re so good at that as well, Dezzy...your talents are excellent and excel at a novella style so it’s believing that in yourself as well...

..I guess because you’ve gone from Black and the depth of your characters there to a novella....?..it’s always going to feel ‘not enough’, you know...but it will be enough ecause there isn’t the same ‘enough’ needed is the thing..I mean that’s the whole thing about it ...but in Darkwood Isles characters couldn’t be explored in the same depth either and yet we still felt those characters so much..we still felt those fears as if they were real..as if our lives really were in danger, you know...we felt Darkwood and it’s delths because volume isn’t needed to feel those things and to feel the story and the characters etc...

..you just let the day flow, Dezzerae...and let it be beautiful.....

..maybe what you should be saying to your new characters right now as you wanted them to be ready sooner...yeah, thanks for nothing people....so yeah, maybe the perfect song, eh..

..oh actually this..I only found it yesterday and given it to Scott and also posted in the chat thread...I like her, see what your thoughts are...

https://youtu.be/Zsx1cOjydBA

..let me go find a song...nothing is singing in my head this morning for some reason...

..the thing about a messy first draft is that..it’s never going to be messy as such because your creations of characters are already in your thoughts and creative hand..so your already shaking off the Black vibe and applying focus, you know..and you know when it’s right and you know when it’s wrong..so it’ll all come together in the perfect time and in the perfect way...I’ll pre order anyway tbh...even if you’ve just written ..once upon a time.....etc...because I know I’m going to be completely absorbed in that one upon a time creation......when those characters are ready, they will talk to you and bond with you, Dezzy...

..I mean your characters will lead you and they’ll lead you into all the plot details etc...but only when you’ve created them and given them life...a Dean Smith novel is one that it doesn’t matter when it’s released...because it’ll still be looked forward to and I know you’ll write it and I know it’ll be amazing..:love...when the time feels right...