Well, this blog is to document the journey of yet another wannabe writer. I know that there are many people who are also documenting their stories, but this blog is about me. =)
So, here is some background on why a person with two masters and a doctorate in education decided that it was more fun to write about an imaginary world instead of the non-fiction education book that I also started at the same time. Yes, I did start writing a book about education but really, where's the fun in that...it would mean lots of picky research that didn't seem nearly as interesting as making up characters and studying information that would help me to create their world.
A little over a year ago I began to think that instead of hiding my enjoyment of watching and reading stories aimed at teens, I should work on writing my own young adult novel. With that in mind, I started officially reading young adult novels to get a better feel for the material (after all, I could claim all the teenage novels I was reading were actually "research".) After spending some time brainstorming and thinking about some story ideas off and on for a couple of months, I finally started really writing each day after work until I had the first draft of my book and sections of its "sequels" that I thought would be fun to write.
I really didn't look at first draft much for a few months to get some distance from it. It took a few months to finally get through editing it because for me, it was harder to do the editing than the initial writing. When writing, you can just write down the things as they come to you...editing means that you have to ensure that what you wrote makes sense.
So, now I have written a book and it is time to brave the scary world of finding an agent. I am bracing myself for the rejections to come.
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