Night and Day Intermission
Ok so what I have to tell you guys is a bit lengthy (more lengthy then I like to put in an authors note) so here's an intermission for you guys.
I feel like I need to give all of you wonderful readers an explanation about my personal writing style. After a couple comments and messages about the last couple chapters I've been feeling like I've let you guys down. I'm not going to stop writing Night and Day, but I need to make a few things clear about what is going on.
"You see my writing style isn't black and white. I don't write about pure "good vs. evil" stuff. A lot of my work sits in that grey area of "well it seemed like a good idea at the time." I like to write about character development and about the little things that a lot of people ignore. In a lot of my writing I'll take an obvious bad guy and dig deeper into WHY they're the bad guy. You'll see a lot of this in my other story "Naraku's Prisoner"
I understand there will sometimes be a pure bad guy that does things "just because they can", but to me that's boring. I like to really develop the reasons behind such evil behavior. I like to write things that make people see things from a different perspective; to make it so that the reader develops a relationship with the antagonist if only so that they hate him/her more.
That's what Night and Day is about. So far we've uncovered the evil character "Havardr". I could just leave the kidnapping as a simple kidnapping, but to me that feels lacking. In future chapters you'll learn more about why Star was kidnapped and what she means to the future of the world. Yes there will be a very dark and evil character and yes there are going to be deaths. In chapter 8 I was setting things up so that you, the readers, got a taste of why Star was kidnapped. I cleared things up in Chapter 9 as to why Havardr took the step to kidnap her instead of talking to people.
In essence Night and Day is about Trust and growth. I wanted to bring back the distrust that was touched upon in the first "How to Train Your Dragon", but write about it in such a way that instead of humans mistrusting dragons, it's humans against other humans. The whole idea of Trust plays a big part in Night and Day. You see it in the beginning when Star trusts Toothless enough to continue living. We see it later when Toothless puts his trust in Berk to help him find Star. We see how much damage Drago does when he destroys the trust that Havardr's people have with the outside world.
You, the readers, need to know that I started writing this after a major breakup in my life. The trust I had for love was ruined and I felt like I'd never love anyone the way I used to love my fiance. Writing Night and Day was my way of coping and by developing these trust issues in the story I was able to explore why it was so hard for me to move on. If it seems like things don't make sense in the story don't worry, it'll make sense as time goes on. Things don't usually make sense right away in real life after all; you just have to keep going until all the pieces fall into place.
I needed to tell all of you this so that I can move forward and keep writing. If I didn't then I know I would have fallen into another block and you wouldn't have seen me for a few months. I don't want to do that to you guys, not at such an important part of the story.