I loveeeeeeeeee books.
I love movies.
I love cosplay maybe more than I should.
I love videogames.
I have a Walking Dead, and Harry Potter fan-page for crying out loud! But I've kept this fraction of my brain quiet. Why? Times have changed, nerds are more then accepted. Actually, now, if you aren't nerding out about something than there's something wrong with you... and you need help.
So after all my rambling are you ready to know the answer? Good. I've been afraid, I am terrified that by doing this thing that I love so very much, people will think lesser of me because I'm 15 years old, which is young, and this thing is a long shot. I realize that but why on earth should that stop me?
I said it before, times have changed. Eighteen y/o's are starting their own companies, Jocks are reading book, cheerleaders are freaking out about last weeks Fear The Walking Dead episode, Starwars fans are getting another movie, Artists are joining sororities, and graphic designers can literally learn everything they would in collage on YouTube, and Y'all, I'm writing a freaking novel.
"*gasp* What? That's insane!"
"Insanely awesome!"
Yeah so its happening, I've been writing it since January, I think... or February...pfft, somewhere around there. This isn't the first thing I ever written though, I wrote a 100 page Harry Potter fanfic about Harry's kids, but its terrible. Not long after that I got an itch, a little idea in the back of my mind that grew larger and larger until I couldn't push out anymore. It was stubborn. It still is. I went through so many drafts before I came up with The Woodsmen.
It's kina a funny story of how I got the idea... I was on Pinterest...of course...and I saw the most captivating photo. then it came to me... a plot. (I would show you the picture but then I would give away the biggest twist in the story.) The plot wasn't complete yet, I went through many ideas. One of them being: The love interest of the story, James, not actually being in Ivy's (Ivy, MC, heroine, and my greatest creation) world, So essentially he was like a ghost. It was a stupid idea. Don't worry I fixed that issue. Thanks brain, for curing my terrible ideas. So after a while of coming up with a complete plot, making a binder, and creating characters (to completion, which means I added background stories and wrote them down. Most of my characters have they're own short stories.)
I still change the plot up every now and then... especially when a character (Mostly James) gets out of line and starts saying a bunch of random crap that I end up keeping because it will explode a readers brain. I know what you're thinking, "How can a character get out of line and say things you didn't plan?"
It sounds insane but, sometimes my head thinks about things, without running them by me first.
This little child of mine may not become anything in the future, it may not get published, or noticed, but at least I can say that I did something incredible, and that I had fun doing it. This is something I never thought I would be doing, I never thought I would even attempt to write a book, heck I never thought I would even attempt to read one. (I hated reading growing up, with a fiery passion of ten thousand suns. Then I read The Hunger Games at the age of 12... and it changed everything. Thanks, Suzanne Collins!)
The Woodsmen is my baby y'all, a little brainchild that I never saw coming. I was afraid to post about this today, but I have nothing to hide, especially this.
Thanks for reading this nonstop sea of nonsense. It means a lot. If anyone want's to read the first chapter of The Woodsmen I will be posting it tomorrow along with a little bonus at 2:00! Also, you can read a little summary below!
Love ya, nerds!
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After being abducted by her city's enemy, sixteen year old Ivy Adler discovers that the two rivals aren't what they're made out to be, along with uncovering secrets of her own.
Hope that's not too bad of a description. I'm afraid if I write more that I'll give everything away...
