Kristine Wyllys's Blog, page 12

4:30 AM & 24,000 words revised later:

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” 

 - George Orwell.

I'm a writer.

I was in 10th grade when I decided I wanted to be a writer.
I had always loved writing. In elementary school, I kept a journal that I wrote in every day about a life I didn’t have. My parents were concerned when they stumbled across it one day, unsure what to make about this parallel life their daughter was pretending to have in diary form. It was hard trying to explain to them that no, I wasn’t lying, because I wasn’t going around and tellinganyone this was my actual life....

A night of revisions: a story told in pictures.

Disclaimer: the following reactions are all real and not staged. Well. Not staged in the sense that I caught myself doing them and then recreated them on my webcam.Because sometimes plans fall through and you end up spending a cold weekend at home and your manuscript is sitting in a folder on your computer screaming at you, “DO SOMETHING WITH ME ALREADY. WE HAVE THINGS TO FIX IN ORDER TO MOVE FORWARD.” So, Diet Mt. Dew is poured, pen and paper is nearby, and your notPod is fired up ready to g...