Gold Diggin' Book Disscussion

[Auset]

Welcome to the Gold Diggin book disscusion. The contents of this disscussion will be placed on the main website in full. I appreciate the support from you all and I am read to answer any and all of your questions. Let's begin!

[Divine Justice]

Well lets just say I was blown away. Aussie honey I applaud you because I could relate to all of the characters in some way. I want to know is, when writing Digs was he based on some 1 close to you?

[Justin]

First of all, congrats to a beautifully written, no-holds-barred love story!

I also could relate to all the characters in the story, I could name a person I know in place of each character. I was wondering how you came up with the whole story line, Keith's rape, Goldies attempted rape and her relationship with her mother? Did you pull from real life experiences you or someone you know have been through or did you just create those situations?

[Auset]

bubowlz said:

when writing Digs was he based on some 1 close to you?

Yes and no. Dig's charecter wasn't based on anyone I know but his features as I described him in the book is based on someone I know as well as the way he dressed. Everything else was simply imagination.

[Auset]

justin said:

I was wondering how you came up with the whole story line, Keith's rape, Goldies attempted rape and her relationship with her mother? Did you pull from real life experiences you or someone you know have been through or did you just create those situations?

The story line was just me wanting to deal with a number of topics. The main topic on how your steps are ordered took each charecter going through what they had to go through to be blessed. Had Sonny not tried Goldie she would have never met her future husband in Keith. And the same can be said in Keith's situation. Had he not been raped he would never had met Rucker and eventually Rucker. While Keiths situation was the most heart wretching to write ( I even cried while writing it) It was important becuase it happens and I want to reach those whom have had this type of pain in their life and let them know there is light at the end of the tunnell. Sonny was actually based on one of my old bosses, down to his wife but with exception to the attempted rape but he always gave me off that energy that he wouldn't be opposed to sleeping with a coworker if prosed. Alot of the situations in the book are pulled from real life but mostly imagination.

Thank you both for your comments I'm so glad ya'll enjoyed it!

[Divine Justice]

O kay Double Dose. Now that was a ggod way of taking ones life was it something you just came up with or did you research that?

[Auset]

I researched it, deep research. I wanted Keith's murders to be something that wouldn't be thought of murder by police once discovered and through my research I found that seldom times instances of overdose they often don't consider murder. This was the perfect scape goat. Unlike with a gun which would keep blood on his hands and a detective in his back yard.
The name double dose was just imagination.
I researched the effect heroin has on people and discovered that pure heroin would be enough to kill someone however two cc's would be enough to make sure they were dead. And I tied that into Keiths trauma as a youth. Everytime he used the double dose on someone he felt as though he was getting his revenge on Ray and in a sense redeeming his youth.

[Justin]

Wow! Well you did an excellent job putting all that research into your story. How long did it take you to write the entire story? Were there any barriers you ran into while writing?

[Auset]

The first fifty pages were the hardest. I rewrote it about four times and all because my computers broke down. Those fifty pages due to those difficulties (which I'm all sure that you all remember) But in any event when I finally sat down, got my lap top and completed the book it took two weeks. Then I edited it (which I know I still need to get some reediting done but hey I'm self publishing) Then sent it to the printer in july and got it back in october and there you have it. The hardest part was bolting my but to the chair to get it done.

[Justin]

2 weeks?!!! If you can write a book in 2 weeks I know you've got a lot more books left to write in you!

Did you already have the story line set in your mind or did change as the story progressed?

How was the experience of publishing independently? Do you want to eventually be published by a big book publishing company or do you like doing it independently?

[Auset]

I have Attitudes of a Woman that I'm going to send to the printer in January of Feburary and I'm half way finished with my second novel. I'm hoping to send that to the printer no later than June. And yes honey I have a whole lot of books I'm working on so please tell a friend and have them tell a friend.

With Gold diggin I strapped my self to the chair and every waking moment I was writing, I mean I even had it on my job writing in my lap top. The story I didn't have a set outline I just let the story come as I wrote, I let the charecters take me to where they wanted to go.

The experience of self publishing is something I reccomend to everyone. It is so rewarding and worth every penny. I don't really care about being published by a big company because I want to make my publishing company bigger than them. I like independant because i get all my profit back not just 15% like the big companies offer, I keep my rights where as with a big company they would own my work. and I can write about what I want to write about I don't have any restrictions. Plus with a big publisher there is no guarantee that they will put your work on the shelf, they can write you off, or put you out but dont promote you, or send 5000 copies to nebraska. Things like that. There is nothing like keeping control of your work.

[Divine Justice]

I'm feeling that cuz. So Momma Roberts where did she come from?

[Auset]

Well cousin as you can imagine the charecter is loosely based on my relationship with my mother. Back in highschool to me it was somewhat strained for reasons you know and others can't imagine but for the purpose of the book I wanted to really jog peoples mind and get them to think on both sides of the game. Goldie wasn't 100% right with her mother but she tried while Momma Roberts was just like look you aint even my real daughter, my real daughter I can't honor her as the first and then the thought of raising a child from your husbands wedlock relationship outside of your own. And more than less there are alot of strained mother daughter relationships for many different reasons and I wanted to touch on that here. And not only that find resolution because it's easy to write somebody off but it's hard as hell to say you know what I was wrong for that. And there are alot of relationships like these that need healing and emotional guidance. I only wish that I was of some help.

[Msmoore]

This is a very well written story, it is an easy read and it keeps your attention. At any time did you find yourself having more words and more of a storyline flowing before you could write it? this is the problem I have I have so much information I get ahead of myself and lose concept of the actual story.
Keep up the excellent work everything was sooo vivid and it really seemed as though I truly knew these people!

[Auset]

I always do but I had to try to implement them into the story while keeping it focused, a very hard task if I must say so myself. I suggest just keep the focus and the let the charecters write their own story it will flow for you. Thank you so much for the compliments you know your words mean more than anything else to me.