Starting off the new blog is exciting. I write alot, and when I’m not writing, I’m thinking about it. You should see the napkins at dinner when I’m extremely bored. Stories have been written on the back of most restaurant’s napkins. I thought I would start out with the explanation of my writing and how it all came to be.
I used to write these little stories in elementary school, because if the teacher liked it, she’d publish it. It wasn’t much, because it would only be in the library of the elementary school, but for a ten year old, that was the equivalent of being a New York Times bestselling author. unfortunately, my story was too long, and I never got it published, because we moved.
I never wrote a full fledged story until sixth grade. I don’t really remember it, because it got lost in one of the Great Moves made by my family. But, my friends liked it. Then, after we moved to South Carolina, I wrote my second book, called Monster City. I loved it at first. Now, a few years later, I looked back at it, and I cringe. But, that just shows how much I’ve grown since that second novel.
I just recently completed my third, thanks to the help of the writing journals that I keep almost all of my creative thoughts in. It only keeps me from going crazy from all the ideas that rush around in my brain. The stories are usually two page clips from something else, like the novel I just completed, and they all attributed to it. I am on my eighth writing journal.
This will help me in my writing, because the feedback always helps–it helps more than I realized. I used to hide my writing, because I feel odd about sharing it with other people. I worry that they won’t like it. Lately, I’ve just reminded myself that there is a difference between constructive criticism, just plain meanness, and the fact that someone just doesn’t like it. Luckily, I’ve gotten a lot of constructive criticism. Some people don’t take criticism well, and up until a few months ago, I didn’t take it at all–it just made me angry. I now realize how important it is.
So, this blog is for my writing, because it is a big part of me, and I love to do it.
