justapynchofblusey:

welcometocabeswater:

justapynchofblusey:

maggie-stiefvater-deactivated20:

Dear gerarwayismyonlyfriend,

Well, it didn’t work. That’s why all of that content is in deleted material. The book was supposed to be about Ronan coming to grips with his identity and Gansey beginning to understand that he’d been looking at magic and friendship in the wrong way. But in my efforts to begin those early drafts with a bang, the rest of the book became about the mechanics of dealing with that external plot problem rather than their internal journeys. There was no space for breath or the maintenance of anyone else’s plot line. There was only time for scheming. 

So that early draft jolted and stumbled from losing the Camaro on page one to winning it back in a race on page four hundred. There was a lot more pointless arguing. There was a rather darker subplot to force Gansey to participate in the ultimate race. And then the final race took place up the side of a mountain in two identical dream cars with Ronan and Gansey in one and Adam and Kavinsky in the other (Adam having demanded to ride with K to make sure the weight was even and that there was no cheating). Kavinsky approached this challenge with the same reckless abandon as the real climax of Dream Thieves, but in this version, he ended up driving off the side of a mountain with Adam in the car. Fireball! Death! Adam walked out alive, protected by Cabeswater, a permutation of a scene that occurs later in the series now.

It was lumpy and inside out, and I spent another nine months turning it right way round. That is, I’m afraid, the only way I know how to write these books. 

urs,

Stiefvater

WAIT WAIT WAIT

CAN YALL IMAGINE THE SCENE WHERE K DRIVES ADAM OFF THE CLIFF

MY GOD I CANT BREATHE

You know this is top notch my jam… 

#I’ll be writing pynch driving off cliffs sometime in my future

SOPHIE DONT TEASE ME ABOUT THIS