#daven deccan

[nicolawritesnovels]

My novel, as reviewed by its main characters

eI was tagged by @merigreenleaf

oh god, I don’t even know which novel to do here, my first thought is to go with the Ally series, because that’s my default, so I’m going to go with it

“I shouldn’t be surprised that it’s all about Alex. Everything is always about Alex. Blah, blah, blah, heard it all before”- Mini (Alex’s sister)

“An interesting take on a certainly insane individual, that provides a bit of insight into how her mind works”- Deccan, high school psych teacher

“A fascinating read. I thoroughly enjoyed it, as it helped to pass my time here in prison,” Jonathan Stratten, serial killer

“I knew all of those excuses were lies. There is absolutely no way that a monkey ate her homework,” Terry Hassan, high school teacher

“This is my absolute worst nightmare. It’s basically an entire book’s worth of things I should have punished Alex for, and if the school board ever reads this I’m screwed. Not only that, but she tells everyone my inner most secrets in the pure act of writing this, a thing she promised not to do in exchange for not giving her detention! I am horrified that she would do such a thing, and there will be consequences,” Nina Jinx, blackmailed principal

“It was long, I didn’t read it,” Ian.

“I think some of the scenes were portrayed in a way that wasn’t quite accurate,” Jaci Diah

“I can’t believe Evan knew about all of the nonsense that she was doing. No sex for a week. No. No toast for a week.J” Andi (Alex’s sister)

“I stand by all of my actions and take this as a confession of bad behavior, one that will have actual consequences,” Evan Hemming, police officer, and Andi’s boyfriend 

“You weren’t supposed to tell anyone,” Lexi. 

“Yeah, that sounds like Alex,” Haidee Miller, best friend.

“I make no comments on this subject matter,” Khae Leimer

“You didn’t have to mention how short I was so often. I am not that short. I mean, yeah, okay I am not tall. But come on, I’m not the only short one here. Terry is short. Jaci is short. Mini is shortish. It’s not just me. That’s just plain rude.” - Alex

I tag: @unabashedlyeclectricstrawberry, @wewriteworlds, @boothewriter, and anyone else who wants to do it. 

[nickywritesnovels]

So I had In New Eyes happening after the whole thing with Lexi. Which means... Alex’s senior year, spring semester. Same time as the convoluted plot with Cippie and all that. Which is good to know, in terms of sorting things and figuring out what I was doing there. 

It doesn’t really explain Alex’s weird fling with Ligeia, other than I just really wanted to write lesbians when I was writing it, but also wanted to write Alex. I suppose this must have been shortly after I realized Alex wasn’t straight. But I guess this was back when Alex and Terry’s relationship was less committed and more vague, which doesn’t really fit with the hoops they had to jump through in order to get it to work. But I wasn’t thinking realistically back then, I suppose. Not that any of this story at all is realistic, but... In New Eyes was novel #7. So I’m talking... senior year of high school, fall semester, taking a creative writing class, pre-second person narration, pre-life conflict. 

This was before I really understood relationships with actual emotional depth (although I did write them before that point, but not in the same way). 

I should stop analyzing it and actually go sort the scenes. 

This was also before I understood psychology, before I took any psych class which totally explains Deccan’s entire characterization. 

It was also before I wrote Dark Blue, which takes place right before it, and it references things in Dark Blue, even though Dark Blue wouldn’t be until the next summer, at novel #12. 

[nickywritesnovels]

Man, Deccan was such an asshole, and I have no idea why I wrote him as such an asshole. I think it was mostly to have someone for Alex to argue with because you have to be stubborn and close minded to argue to the point that he does. 

Which is a bit weird. I feel like as a bisexual psychology teacher he should be a bit more open minded, and wiling to consider other ways of thinking. 

[nickywritesnovels]

This is probably my story with the highest percentage of straight people, but I’m slowly changing that.

I’m curious who my LGBT people in it are. 

Alex is pansexual

Lexi is gay

Jinx is bisexual

Ella and Haidee are both gay

Ace is pansexual and intersex and genderqueer

Pat is nonbinary

Khae is bisexual

Lani is bisexual

Serie is gay

Hemming is bisexual

Devyn is trans

Charlie is trans

Gage is agender

Markki is probably bi

I think Rye is gay, but she avoids sharing

Mini is bisexual, as is Tae

Ian is straight, but poly and with two bi women which doesn’t really mean much

Jaci is bi-curious, but I’m not sure where she ends up landing on the spectrum of it

Chrissie has experimented with other women, but didn’t get very far into it

Deccan is bi

his boyfriend, who’s name i don’t remember was bi

I think that might be it

but I could be wrong

[nicolawritesnovelsold]

I forgot I made character profiles for everyone. There are so many versions of each thing in all the stuff I already have written that I was trying to compile it all together. Maybe I'll work on that again soon. In the meantime, I've got to figure out these two character's stories, and put them on the timeline. 

[nicolawritesnovelsold]

There is literally nearly 50,000 words of these two characters just having a conversation chilling on my computer.