Abigail asked Rhett McLaughlin:

Hello! Was becoming an author something you wanted to do when you were younger? Or has that desire to write manifested since starting on YouTube? I can't wait to read your new novel!!!

Rhett McLaughlin After falling in love with the Chronicles of Narnia as a kid, I started writing a fantasy novel in middle school. I knew nothing about writing, and had no idea where the story would go. I literally just pulled out some notebook paper and began writing. I don't remember much, but I know that the main protagonist awakens in a strange world, where he walks out out of a large castle-like building with no knowledge of who or where he is. He sees fat, short-legged cattle grazing in the fields around the castle (in my mind, he had awakened in the distant future, where cattle had been domesticated and bred to be even less wild, more like waddling sacks of hamburgers. He then begins walking, where he meets up with a collection of different characters along the way. Eventually, he and his companions reach a large chasm that appears to be impossible to cross. It was at this point that I also found a chasm in my story. I literally wrote my characters and myself into a dead end, and never picked the story back up.

So, short answer to your question is yes, I've always wanted to write, and I since building our audience on YouTube, I've been excited about the possibility of telling a story like The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek, a book in which there are definitely no chasms.

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