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Currently, I am working on Book 1 of a fantasy series—title coming soon!!!—and nearing the end of my editing! The current draft is probably Draft #11 (or #1100012.3), but I promise all of the edits are worth it! I have learned a lot in the past few years, and am almost ready to start the
It is so easy to draft something I want to—a fantasy world full of magic, creatures, and fun—but trying to tear my hair out for every single word I add to a speech! Why can’t I just write my book instead??? 😭 All of these ideas come from two books I want to write–one about
This book surprised me, I did not know what it would be like and what kind of book it was! I was pleasantly startled when I found out that it was a book (or 6 ebooks if you read it on a kindle) about a Fae world and its rulers. This book delves into emotion,
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A good storyteller isn’t the person who tells the story and the characters, it’s the one who believes in the story enough to make their readers feel it too. For the story to stick in someone’s mind, an author has to reach out through the pages, relating directly to the reader and their life. You
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In my life, I’ve been given multiple notebooks, many with the intention of ‘journal’, ‘gratitude book’, and even ‘thoughts’. No, they did not end up as the intended dreaded journal, gratitude book, or thought book. They ended up as my first draft stories. The first notebook started it all. It was my eleventh birthday, and
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My aunt gave me this shirt for Christmas. It quickly became my favorite t-shirt because of how true it is. I pay attention to the things that are going on around me-People watching. If I find something interesting, or it sparks an idea, it ends up in my novel. Hence the saying. One scene I’ve
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I’m so excited!!! The first few chapters of my book are completely done and I’ve finished editing and printed them out for the first time!!! Now that I know what the editing process is like, I hope I can make it go faster and polish the rest of the story more quickly with fewer problems
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This last week I visited the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. I got to walk and drive across the entire thing. I even saw it lit up at night. It was incredible and amazing to see it during the day and night. What some people don’t know is why it is called the Golden
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Today I visited my local library and searched for new reads. As an author, I’m always studying the works of others, seeing what I like and don’t. Finding something in my genre is always hard because I like unique, surprising books. But how am I supposed to judge for myself what is in my genre
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