Chapter 8, fanfiction, and facing your fears

(Image: Chapter 8, Gregk the Demon) , It always amazes me how quickly this arc in Bennie's story goes, because when I first began writing the book, it took me ten months to get her from going through the trauma of seeing/fighting the demon to facing her fears over him. That's what happens when you're writing a novel at the same time you're writing fanfiction, andin high school. That is, in fact, why I gave up fanfiction. I knew as long as I wrote fanfiction my own work would suffer.

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