Words on a Previously Blank Page

Heyo,

Summer has been good. It has also been one of the toughest summers I have seen. But because of this moment  (which just ended up being the beginning of the storm), I also got my act together about half way through.

This summer I did something that I have NEVER done.

I finished a 50,000 word novel. More specifically I finished a super rough first draft. Titled Forgottons or No One to Blame. Even though it it a mess, I am still really excited though, because this is the longest book I have ever written, most of the time I get distracted by a new shiny idea about 20,000 words into something. This time I did Camp Nanowrimo to finish the last 30,000 words and it totally worked.

Bad picture quality, sorry! But just think about the happiness of this screen :D

Now I am leaving it to sit in its filth and hopefully it grows magic, like rotten fruit growing majic, I mean, penicillin.

I am itching to keep touching it and to write more, but school starts Monday and school take priority. So on to a new chapter in the life of Lissa.

NURSING.

But it adds to my sanity, when I can think in those dark, cold studying moments, "I wrote a (almost) whole book! And no matter what people say, or what grade I get, no one can take that from me."

It just helps me feel like a whole, complicated person. Not just one thing.

Listening to: "Starting Over" from If/Then sung by Idina Menzel

Bye...

<3 Lissa