The Opposite of Falling Apart was read by over 2.1 million readers on Wattpad! Today, I’m honored to host this guest post where the author, Micah Good, will share with us five big moments in the making of this book. The cherry on top? You get to enter my individual US giveaway on Instagram for a chance to win a copy for yourself.
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Guest Post by Micah Good, Author of The Opposite of Falling Apart.
Five Big Moments in the Journey to ‘The Opposite of Falling Apart’
Every trip can be looked at as a sum of its parts, or as individual stops you made along the way. Here are five moments I remember when I look back on writing TOOFA:
1. First up is a downstairs bedroom, featuring terrible wifi and the middle of the night. Anxiety lent itself to insomnia, and I frequently found myself in a midnight, writing-in-the-dark situation. One night, after probably my third failure at trying to write a story for a character with anxiety, my word document dissolved into a third person narrative in which I was the character, frustrated with my writing and my anxiety, and the fact that I couldn’t seem to write a story that adequately conveyed all the feelings roiling in my head. About a month later, in the same bedroom, with the same insomnia driving my writing, I started writing the story that would eventually (through many twists and turns) become TOOFA.
2. Next up is work, between phone calls. I’d jot down ideas on sticky notes. Most vividly, I remember writing the lines that would first iterate what would eventually become a main theme in the novel. “I’m not trying to fix you, because there’s nothing to fix. You’re not broken…”
3. During the process of writing TOOFA, there were some moments when my anxiety got the best of me, and I had a hard time writing and posting. In 2017, I started posting updates to Wattpad again, and in September of 2017, the story was featured. I got the notification that I had a message from Wattpad while I was in class, and it was all I could do to wait for a break so that I could read it. Looking back, this feels like the jumping off point for everything I got the opportunity to do with Wattpad with this story.
4. I still remember where I was when I got a publication offer. I was so nervous that I took a drive before I made the scheduled phone call with Wattpad, because driving is how I calm down. I parked in a Walmart parking lot, near the back of the lot. When the offer was made, I didn’t know what to say. I was pretty speechless. The words I did say were probably jumbled, and I can’t really remember what I actually said. I do remember taking notes in the car on blue sticky notes. (I found those notes again, later, in the glovebox, after I’d already gotten to hold finished copies of the story I wrote). I remember hanging up the phone and having all my nervous energy dissipate into shaky hands and arms.
5. Choosing which little moments to feature in this list was hard, because there are so many important ones. However, I don’t think this list would be quite complete without the moment where I got to hold a final copy for the first time. I finally got to let my parents see their dedication. I got to watch them read the acknowledgements and hold something I wrote. It’s still one of my proudest moments in this whole crazy journey.
I’d also like to leave an unspoken number six, for whatever comes next. Because if there’s one thing this trip has taught me, it’s that you never know what can happen.
The Opposite of Falling Apart – SYNOPSIS
After losing his leg in a terrible car accident, Jonas Avery can’t wait to start over and go to college.
Brennan Davis would like nothing more than to stay home and go to school, so she can keep her anxiety in check.
When the two accidentally meet the summer before they move away, they’ll push each other to come to terms with what’s holding them back, even as they’re pulled closer to taking the biggest leap of all—falling in love.
The Opposite of Falling Apart has more than 2.1 million reads on Wattpad.
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About The Author: Micah Good
Micah Good has been writing since middle school. She’s been writing stories on Wattpad since the summer before her freshman year of college. Her stories have been featured, won a Watty, and she was invited to participate in Wattpad’s Paid Stories program.
She currently lives in the midwestern United States, where she is pursuing a career in nursing. She loves dogs, naps and getting lost in a book.
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