Inspiration Monday
There is something magic about writing not just a love story but the ultimate love story. Hollywood movies used to be far more into this than they are now, but we often come across a love story like that. It’s the love that gets reborn or lasts hundreds and thousands of years.
Origins of Just One
When I first began to write Just One, I was a teenager, and sometimes I wonder just how well I had understood the meaning of the title and the story I was telling. This has been mentioned before, but Just One was inspired by my love for the 1999 Roswell TV show and the many questions that followed the end of that television show. Somewhere along the way, it became much more than it originally was, and a whole new world was built. I’m not the first writer to create this way, and fan fiction has pleasantly surprised me a few times since reading it.
The original idea behind Just One was writing about discovering a past life. Who were my characters before they came to Earth? Why are they on Earth? What happened in that life?
I discovered surprising answers to questions like that (and others). They didn’t always come straight away; sometimes, they arrived through the writing process, and suddenly, I would realise something that hadn’t occurred to me before. This is probably why the Just One series is planned out as a seven-book story rather than the original trilogy I had thought I would do. In writing Just One, I realised more things that hadn’t been obvious before.
Finding Deeper Meaning
The title Just One is much the same. Initially, this meant the two girls from Earth were once just one person in their past lives. Kivana Eli, who is only a past life dream in Just One, became the main character of Just One: Edge of Never. But what if Just One didn’t mean Kivana Eli? I asked myself seven years ago when I began reinventing this fan fiction into its own story. Perhaps in my youthfulness, I, too, hadn’t realised something that was staring me right in the face.
What if Just One meant the love story I had been writing?
What if Just One wasn’t telling our main heroines everything about who they were?
What if Kivana Eli herself, who seemed like the driving force of this story, didn’t know either?
Questions like these build the world of the Just One book series, and I want to share them with you when the time comes. The first book in the series, Just One, only scratches the surface and opens the reader to the author’s thoughts and beliefs. There is much about this story that I have wondered about my whole life, and while I haven’t gotten the answers to my questions, I chose to write my answers in the story I was creating.
This is a preview of my creation process. I couldn’t tell all because then why read the book when it comes out? And there will be a lot to discover in Just One.
Until next time,
~ Love, L.V.
L.V. Luca 