Here's a little bit on how my novel came into being. Three years ago in my creative writing class of my senior year in high school I attempted to start a short story. I only got as far as like five pages, but it was enough of a start to get me really thinking about it. It was based around a preadolescent girl who lived with her grandparents, growing up under the belief that her parents were dead. One day while exploring in the woods, she fell in the midst of climbing a tall pine. Instead of crashing to the ground, a stranger catches her. Then she grew wings, blah blah blah. It was all very boring, really. The stranger tells her that she's from an secret winged race, that her parents are still alive, and that she's a princess. All that in five pages? Yeah, it was pretty awesome...
So I went back I deleted the entirety of the "short story" but took the foundations of it to create a novel. The girl still grows wings, she still finds out she's a princess, but other than that I changed everything. With the help of two years of NaNoWriMo, (if you don't know what that is, then you need to be educated right here and now. Click Here to find out more about National Novel Writing Month!), I finally got the basis for my sprouting novel underway. I only made it halfway each year, but whatever.
The first week of December 2010 I had finally made it to the last page. Whoop-die do, right? With a motto like "quantity over quality" it's no big surprise. But the work is FAR from over. I've gone over half the book about five times now, making radical changes each time and I'm still not finished. I figured, why should I go through the entire novel all at once when there's so many inconsistencies just in the first five chapters? So I'm getting the facts straight in the beginning, then I'll continue to go through the rest with a firm knowledge of what the deuce I'm talking about.
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