Ever since I can remember, I've been writing stories. I remember sitting in my parent's house on the floor with my spelling book while Mom decorated parts of the house. I must have been 7 or 8, and I had this daily or weekly spelling list from which I had to use a handful of the words in full written sentences. And more frequently than not, Mom would help me turn these sentences into a story.
Now years later, I'd like to think I've moved beyond "the CLOWN takes the BROWN COW to TOWN," but what I have yet to do is publish a full length novel. But this Spring I had an idea come to me that I can't stop writing about. I've been working on it for the past 2 months, I've nearly reached 60k words, and I felt like I wanted to share the idea with my friends and family. This is a fantasy story about a young woman named Serena who is trying to figure out how to run a kingdom as the only heir in the midst of a civil war. The only problem is that as a baby, she nearly died, and in their desperation to save her life, her parents made a pact with a witch. The witch brought Serena's spirit back from the underworld, but another spirit came with it. Fortunately this spirit is not hostile except that it wishes to keep Serena to itself. Thus the princess often finds herself isolated and lonely and unable to connect with other human beings. On top of this, she struggles with the question of: who decides who gets to live and who gets to die? Her own life was saved, but should it have been? Does she get to decide to send an army off to die whenever she wants? Why are their lives any different than hers? And what gives her the right to live when people are dying all around her? As I reach the end of the first draft, I am discussing with my professors the subject of agents, contracts, and publishing companies, and who knows, maybe I'll have a published novel under my belt before long.
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