The Writer: Beginnings

 

 

 

I plan to self-publish my book, The Assassin, this summer.  While I mentioned it briefly, I think this new beginning is a time to really go back and go into detail about my writing career. So, every week (at least for the next few weeks), I'll talk about different aspects of my writing career. 

 

Writing is something that just comes very naturally to me. I wouldn't be a blogger if I wasn't! The first time I really remember writing every week, on a consistent basis, was in seventh grade. Every Friday, we would have to write all class period. We could write a letter, a diary entry, a story, whatever we wanted. I remember writing a story about a girl who found out her dad was the king of a little nation. Now that I think about it, that sounds a lot like The Princess Diaries. Whoops. 

 

However, it wasn't until a year later, in eighth grade, that I really began writing for fun. I had a bright, little green notebook. One day in science class, when we were watching a video and it was really dark, I wrote this murder scene, between this man named Brent and a woman named Maria. Well, six years and many incarnations later, that's the unseen backstory to my main character, Cassie Dreandry.

 

When I finished the story, I remember, I was in tennis, study hall because it was raining that day. I finished the story, talked to a few girls on the tennis team, and about ten minutes later, I started writing the second book. I didn't know what else to do!

 

Little did I know back then, but that scene was going to start one of the biggest things in my life. Here, six years later, I'm about to take the biggest jump of my career and I can NOT WAIT.