Growing up, I had always loved to write. I once tried to write my own book. I named it "Escape," and I got pretty far into writing it. I started it when the author of "Ash Fall" (Mike Mullin) came to my school one day and told us how he made it a habit and loved writing. After that, it became a daily thing for me to do. When I got home from school, I would sit down and write. When I thought of an idea and was nowhere near my laptop, I would write it on a sticky note, then put it inside my agenda to make sure I remembered it. It got so crazy that my room was full of sticky notes lying everywhere. Eventually, my mom got so sick of the mess that she bought me a binder to keep the printed copy of the story in and a small notebook to fit in the binder where I could list all of the ideas I had. I wrote for days, which turned into weeks, which turned to months. But the further I got into writing it, the more I got writer's block and couldn't come up with a way to tie in the ideas I had to the story. I got to the point where I didn't see the need to write anymore. As time went on, I would often visit the binder and see if I could think of any way to bring the story back and begin to love writing it again. I was stuck between a rock and a hard place.
I still, to this day, sometimes go back and write a chapter. It's honestly a really good story with a good plot line. I treat it like my baby. All good things need time and work, so I'm willing to take as long as I can to make sure it's a great story. Whenever I finish it, my plan is to send it to a lot of different publishing companies and see what happens. I'm fully aware of how hard it is to get published, and I know how hard I will have to work to get it where I want it to be. But going back, this story is like my child, and I will do anything I can to make it worthy. I will change whatever needs to be changed, I will reshape it, I will do anything to make sure it's successful. I believe in the story that much. I also happen to believe that it could end up being a best-selling book. But with the rate of writing I'm at now, it will be at least four years till its finished. And who knows, in those four years, I may decide that I don't want it to be published anymore. I might just want to keep the story that is "Escape" all to myself.
