𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞

a/n

hi everybody, i just want to thank you all so much for reading "promises made". i hoped y'all enjoyed it despite how cheesy it was, i apologize and i will definitely do better cross my heart

anyways, i want to talk about some things about this book.

let's begin..

• i planned this since the last 3-4 months of eighth grade (last year). because i was still working on another book, i thought it was a bad idea to plan too much since i still had to finish my book. i recall the time i was going to consider diana as a very ambitious, yet stylish girl but i thought of having thomas being ambitious instead (scratch the stylish part).

• some movies inspired me to write this book, though one particular movie helped me a whole lot with one part of this book and that movie was "of human bondage" (1934) this movie definitely helped by inspiring the fight that diana and thomas have after she saw him with his secretary

• this is probably my first book that has taken me a long time which was almost 8 months. the reason as to why i said it was my first time is probably because this definitely won't be the last

• one of the reasons i took a long time to write was because i had gotten in frequent arguments with an old friend (which i don't plan on talking about) and everytime i tried to write, even a sentence i would get distracted by those arguments and get angry once again. and yes, those kept getting just worse but i want to forget about it and move on with life

• in the middle of writing this book (approximately around the time i started school) i was like very close to a particular boy i liked a lot (who i also liked right before my outsiders phase) and we were just always talking 24/7 even to the point where i was losing my interest for the outsiders. but after he drastically changed, because he was getting involved with drugs, i never spoke to him again and decided to go back into writing, definitely the second worst thing that's ever happened to me

• this story was going to be diana's point of view, but while i was writing it the day before i published it i hated it. i hated it so much i was so close to delete this book in anger

• when i was just starting this book, i didn't know what to say about diana's father, so he wasn't really mentioned but i just thought to myself that if i was ever asked about her father then i'd just have to say that her father died while diana was with thomas

• i thought of having diana not want to ever fall in love again after being stuck with thomas but like who can't resist a hot man like sodapop??

• i never really put thought into the ending before i started writing. i have like really bad memory and so by the time i came up with an actual good ending, i ended up forgetting it because of school (let me tell you, high school sucks balls) and so i had to just come up with something random

• even though i never saw myself getting help from my own characters (because i make such cliche characters) , diana sort of helped me realize that i deserve to be independent (and you can be too 💋)

• i was like actually really hesitant to publish this at first because i felt like people were going to get mad, thinking that i romanticise abuse (which i will never do ofc)

farewell

see you guys in my dallas winston fan fic "the other woman" (which will be published this weekend) mwahsies 💋

love, alma