User blog comment:Cloveismywife/373rd Hunger Games/@comment-4988520-20130102012629

Ok. So, after I finished The Vengeance Games, I felt like I barely wrote the actual Games, because the plans the mentors put together basically wrote them for me. So, I wanted to do one Games where I would decide everything. I found it hard to write, because I had to think of everything. Still, I felt like I got more out of each tribute and got more into character. But, I do think that it kind of takes the fun out of the Games if the mentors just cheer on the sidelines. So, in my next Games, I will encourage advice again. But I did enjoy writing these.

As far as the tributes, I really liked the ones that survived past Day 2. The others were meh, but that's because I didn't do the draft. (I'm only doing that for quells from now on.) I found it really hard to kill off the other tributes, even though I knew Taylor would be the victor. I didn't know how it would end, truthfully, and at one point, I was thinking of doing Taylor v. Izzy or Taylor v. Paula at the end. But Taylor v. Camellia fit best in the storyline. When I was choosing tributes for a PoV, I really wanted to bump it up to 8 PoVs and include Varina and Camellia, but that would have been so much writing.

Also, when I was deciding the victor way before I even started writing, I was considering all of the PoV tributes and some non-PoVers. My top 4 were Taylor, Paula, Scarlet, and Izzy, but I finally decided on Taylor. I really liked all of these tributes, so don't feel bad if they died! Thanks for reading!