Life's Whirlwind Adventures

Or third draft... I'm really not sure. Anyways I have been on Wattpad for over year now, my niece, Havana, introduced me to this website and I am loving it!! It's a great place for me to put my writings up and be able to get people to read them and get comments and suggestions on them.  I've been neglectful though and I haven't been consistent in my posting and writings. Last night I uploaded 4 chapters to my first novel that I have been doing on that website. It's a novel I had written by hand, then typed on the computer and I have now been uploading the chapters to Wattpad. I am really happy with the story, although as I am in the third draft now I am noticing some areas where I am lacking and some areas that I need to change.   The editing process of writing can be so difficult sometimes. So go and check out my inaugural novel, it's actually going to end up being the second in that trilogy I've started the first novel but the first only has two ch...

I have been working on this for years, and sometimes the writing process drives me crazy, no wonder some of the great authors were alcoholics!! I have actually completed this novel pen to paper years ago, but I'm trying to transcribe the second draft onto my computer.  Transcribe might not be the right word, but I'm typing the second draft, which will make editing easier for the third and fourth drafts.  I'm probably 7 chapters in I'd say half way and I've changed the timeline  because there were issues in the first draft, I've also change the antagonist and I'm considering changing the Point of View, which is a lot of work!! I'm so picky when it comes to my writing, maybe that's what's kept me for publishing or seeking a publisher for years.  I'm a bit of a perfectionist, not that I think my writing is perfect, but I know how I want the book to read, but it's not there yet.  That and I write when the mood tickles my fancy, I've not...

It has been a dream of mine to be a published author, this has been a dream of mine since I was in middle school. The idea of making a living by creating worlds and characters that other people connect with is such a fantasy. I've imagined it for years and years but I've never really done anything about it. Nothing really concrete. I've written countless short stories, and I have started countless novels. They are all safely tucked away in drawers or on flash drives but I've never shared them with other people. I've started putting them on flash drives in the hopes that I would send them out to be self published in and epub or something, but I've never moved past the typing them into my computer. I find when it comes to my dream of being a writer, aside from this blog, which is hit and miss, I've never done any consistent writing.  I've never set aside time each day to devote to my writing or writing activities and it seems to me that this may be the...