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What was the most challenging part of writing this story? Did your final draft look noticeably different from your rough draft?
The writing of this story wasn’t challenging, but not giving up on it when I had every reason to do so…most assuredly was. At the beginning, this story was kicked to the curb, closed, and passed on. I wrote the Custodian series first before I wrote the Doormen series, and I was so passionate about telling this one story, almost as much as I am today, that I couldn’t say goodbye to it. I couldn’t let it go. I had to see it to the end and this was two years ago, so I spent countless months writing, rewriting, editing, and sending it to test readers to see what they thought.
But then I was still working out a few of the kinks in my own writing then as well, still learning who I was as a storyteller and what I needed to do differently. I wouldn’t go as far as to say I was a rookie in this racket, but there was a tremendous amount of growth between then and now, no doubt. Needless to say, I am glad I didn’t give up, and I fought this to the end, no different than my character Kyle Quinn who knows not to back down from a fight and to not go home until a mission is done.
I suppose I could say the most challenging part of writing this story was keeping track of the whole narrative, its twists, turns, and every character I created among the three novels, but my passion and infatuation with this story guided me the whole way, and it was awesome.
It was a wonderful, difficult, and very stressful journey but here, I am, which means…I made it. I didn’t give up.
Final draft from rough draft? God! Now that’s a radical question I prefer not to think about it in fear my head would explode and I plan to save that when writing my next novel! There are so many drafts I’ve lost count, so do with that what you will, but no doubt the rewriting was fundamental, as it usually is, and I even edited what I thought would be the final, and then I did the same thing for the final again, and I imagine, even if I read it again, I’d still make more changes, and that’s to the final final final…uh, you get where I’m going with this, don’t you?
Nothing is ever finished.
What can I say? We’re artists, which means we’re never truly satisfied.
- Jarrett Mazza
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