It contains the main storyline but still leaves me with the freedom to develop secondary storylines and characters so I never feel too constrained. No more wasted time! I can write a full book now, start to finish including edits, in six months versus six years! I now write a ten or so page synopsis before I begin drafting. I was able to work out my story/character issues before I started drafting and I had a roadmap to follow once I did start drafting. Abigail Johnson T10:56:05-07:00 How many books have you written that aren’t published If I Fix You was the first book I wrote start to finish (I started and quickly abandoned an adult novel prior to that). I’d written a synopsis before, but never prior to completing the first draft so this was an entirely new experience for me and it changed everything! I was able to write my entire story in ten pages or so and then when something needed to be changed, it was as simple as rewriting a few pages instead of a few hundred.

I was kind of forced into becoming a plotter when I needed to submit a book proposal (synopsis and the first three chapters) to my publisher for what became my sophomore novel, The First to Know. How do you take two completely at-odds families and find a way to bridge them I DON’T KNOW BUT ABIGAIL MAKES IT HAPPEN. The one person who completely understands what Brooke is going through is the one person. Plus, there’d be days where I wasted so much time just trying to figure out what to write that I’d barely write at all. ICYMI Abigail Johnson is my absolute favorite writer of families and Even If I Fall just completely cements it. I wrote my first book, If I Fix You, without any idea where the story or characters would end up and it took me FOREVER! When something significant needed to be changed I had to re-write half the book. find cute boys, stay up late, and sneak out after hours.

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