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Featured story of the month for May 2009 - All Hail the Heartbreaker

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cabybakes:

--- Quote from: TantilisinTeaser on May 06, 2009, 10:04:56 AM ---Hi Draby, sorry I haven't gotten around to answering your questions sooner but I have had to go to work boo!!!

We're you worried what readers would think about the fact that Adie had an abortion in the past? 

It's definetly a contraversal topic that is for sure. I myself am stuck on the fence, I don't really agree with having an abortion because it was not the right time in your life but that doesn't mean that I am pro life because I think if there were serious problems with the baby that would mean they have no quality of life is it really far to put them through a life time of pain? So yeah definetly a difficult topic!

I Ummed and areed over it for weeks but something like that needed to happen, otherwise Nick would have been offering everything to her and she would have been turning him down for no good reason. It would not have made any sense. People were either going to understand or they weren't but for the most part people have been receptive to the idea. I think it's because I have shown how remorseful she is about it, I think people realised that if she could change what she did she would. After all she was very young and very easily led at  that time in her life and we all make mistakes.


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Not only that, but after reading your last chapter, her having the abortion separates the baby situation with Mark and the situation with Nick...differe nt circumstances. ..gives you more to work with!

mare:
What has been your favorite chapter to write so far and why?

TantilisinTeaser:
My favorite chapter to write so far has to be When It Rains. I think its a combination of a lot things. Nick finally understands what caused Adie to become the way she had, he catches glimpses of "his" Adie every now and then in the chapter and I think it gives him hope.

Max is also born in this chapter and I think the catalyst of that plays a huge part in the rest of the story because it finally made Adie see that Nick was playing with her emotions, that he does really want them to be a family and that she needs to be more honest with him about her past issues. There is a lot of emotion and it may not be my most evil cliff hanger (see chapter All Good Things Come To An End) but it's a close second!

I had a lot of fun writing it because there is a huge growth in Adie, at the begining of the chapter she is cold and distant, trying to protect herself but by the end she kind of realises that she isn't protecting herself, she is only hurting herself and him. The lyrics to When it Rains by Paramore just fit so well too, although up until it came on to my IPOD her car was only going to brake down. I think walking through the pouring rain, with her umbrella braking in the process was a hell of a lot more like a romantic movie scene and it just added to the suspense!

mare:
So, how hard is it for you to write an overly emtional chapter? What is your process? Do you find yourself acting it out as you write or closing your eyes and visualizing it? If you want you can give us an example of a scene you wrote and how your thought process behind that scene worked for you.

TantilisinTeaser:
Sometimes I find it really difficult to write overly emotional chapters and yet other times it flows so easily I can kick the whole chapter out within in an hour. I think it helps to truly understand what is going through your characters mind and I think that is where character development comes in to play. You have to know them inside out to get the emotion right.

Lets take Now That She's Gone as an example.

This chapter was the most emotionally charged that I have ever written and if I am honest I was dreading writing it. It would have been very easy to skip ahead and to miss these scenes out but I don't think the story would have been as good if I did. I also had the pressure of capturing the emotion correctly and senitivly as losing a child has to be one of the worst things imaginable.

I knew the specific things that had to happen in the scene, Molly had to be born, Adie had to be relcutant to see her and Nick had to make her understand why she needed to say goodbye. From that point I reminded myself about the stages of grief and made sure to try and capture the ones I had not yet got to. I thought it was important for one person to come to terms with it (Nick) and for the other to be having a bit more difficulty (Adie).

Working in Paediatric intensive care helped greatly as I have seen too many parents go through a similar situation and drawing from those expiriences helped me to capture the emotion perfectly. In the end I think the whole chapter took about two hours to crank out because once I got going I found I couldn't stop.

The reviews I got for that chapter were amazing and I felt a real sense of achievement.  ;D

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