My Writing Journey 1

I decided to create a series on my blog where I share my writing journey with you. 

Currently, I'm working on a novel and I've been wanting to write a novel for a long time. A couple of years ago I did a first draft of a novel but I wasn't happy with how it turned out. Now, I've thought of a new idea for a novel and I've never been more excited to write a novel. I love the idea and I think it is a strong idea that has potential. Of course, I'm only in the early stages of the writing process at the moment so it is very much a working progress. 

Why did I start my novel?
I started working on this novel after completing a class on Skillshare. The class was called Creative Writing Bootcamp by Myla Goldberg and I highly recommend it because it really did inspire me. One of the exercises was to write about someone you dislike and I did which then created this whole new character in my head. We had to do an empathy venn diagram which is where you have to compare what similarities and differences you have with a certain job. That's when I meshed the job and the person I hate together, before I knew it an idea was born which then formed an idea on how to make the story interesting which is when the plot twist hit me. That's when I got so excited with my idea, I started researching then I started writing. It was great. 

My Current Progress
At the moment my current progress is the prologue and three chapters which currently stands at 8,113 words. I know it's not a lot of progress and this is my first draft of my novel but I'm looking forward to where the story is going. I know I'm being very vague about my novel and not saying what it is about because I know it is the early stages. Anything can change at any moment. Even though I haven't finalised anything yet even with regards to a plot twist that is happening in the book, there's still progress to be made on it. 
Anyway, that's all I have to say for now. I'm hoping to make this into an official series on my blog to give you guys updates on the progress of my novel and hopefully inspire you to write your own novel. I may do this as a monthly series but I'm not sure yet. In the future posts in this series I may give out tips and tricks that have helped me in my writing journey so look forward to those. If you have any questions or anything, feel free to leave them in the comments below.

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog and I hope you're looking forward to my writing journey series. I'll be back again soon with another post.

See you then. 

Megan x

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