2015 Debut Authors Bash : Jen Brooks
Today's Guest Post is brought to you by Jen Brooks who is the Debut Author of the YA Book " In a World Just Right" which can be found @ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24722498-in-a-world-just-right?from_search=true&search_version=service
Guest Post Topic:
What was it like writing parallel universes? Did you find the jumping back/forth - in between difficult?
In In A World Just Right, the settings of
the parallel universes were pretty easy to write, because they were exactly the
same. My main character, Jonathan, is so lonely in the real world that all he
wants is human contact, and so his primary parallel world’s only difference is
the love and attention he gets from others, specifically his girlfriend, Kylie.
The
tricky part for me was in writing two different versions of Kylie—one in the
real world, who is not Jonathan’s girlfriend, and one in the parallel world,
who is. I wasn’t sure how different to make them, since the only real
difference is each girl’s relationship to Jonathan. In the end, they had to be
different enough to distinguish them when Jonathan switches back and forth
between worlds. But then . . . Jonathan’s confusing of his world’s one day
causes bits of each Kylie to bleed into the other across worlds. The changes in
both of them as the novel progresses were probably the most intriguing elements
to write.
Another
part that I had to work at was the timing of Jonathan’s shifting between worlds.
If he spent the morning in one world, he was not in the other, so I had to work
out the consequences of his splitting time like that while also moving the plot
around events that could never truly be parallel, since Jonathan is never in
the same place at the same time.
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