I've always loved stories about redemption, characters with dark pasts striving to change but struggling with who they've become. So I'm marking below as a spoiler - I'd advise holding off reading any further here until you've finished the book. So I' …more Thanks! The origins of the story are actually a little tricky to explain, as they kind of give away the ending to 'The Shadow of What Was Lost'. James Islington Thanks! The origins of the story are actually a little tricky to explain, as they kind of give away the ending to 'The Shadow of What Was Lost'. It took a couple of years and a fair amount of patience - a lot of drafts and a lot of edits based on feedback, especially early on - but eventually 'Shadow' got to the point where I was comfortable releasing it. From there it was just a case of being diligent about getting something down on the page every day.
I'd already been working from home and on my own schedule for years, so self-discipline wasn't really an issue. In terms of finding the time, when I turned thirty I basically decided to scale back my involvement in the business so that it became a not-quite-full-time endeavour - less money, of course, but it allowed me both the opportunity and head space to write while still earning a paycheck. Those books really got me excited about the genre again, and that in turn motivated me to give my own story a go. It was more that they rekindled my *enthusiasm* for the idea, which to me is actually a much harder thing to inspire. So when I finally got around to discovering Brandon’s and Patrick’s books, it wasn’t that they necessarily created my first ‘I want to be an author’ moment – I think everyone who enjoys writing has a little bit of that in them already anyway. I barely had time to read fiction, let alone write anything. It was pretty successful and a major learning experience, but also an insane amount of work and stress. Most of my twenties, though, was spent running a startup with a friend of mine. James Islington Sure! It wasn’t *quite* as abrupt as that – I absolutely loved creative writing as a teen, and the ambition to write a novel ‘one day’ was always ther …more Sure! It wasn’t *quite* as abrupt as that – I absolutely loved creative writing as a teen, and the ambition to write a novel ‘one day’ was always there.
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