jollyelmroot

I came back to writing in 2021. I had stopped working on trying to write a novel once high school was in the way, I was taking many hefty classes and as a sacrifice I’ve let go of my passion of fictional writing, even reading. I used to read a lot but not so much now.

Three years ago, I’ve worked up an idea inspired from a verse in the Bible and that idea became a story, as I begun writing I’ve noticed my tone had changed, it wasn’t like when I was in middle school, or a freshman in high school. I hadn’t improved either. I was rusty, shaggy and dry.

The one thing that I’ve never ever struggled with was creating imagery, coming up with analogies and metaphors but I found myself telling instead of showing and that was disastrous to me.

How I felt was that I digressed, but months down the line, I pushed through until one day I got upset and in rage ripped up my manuscript. Looking back, I really regret it, all that hard work, though not good work, it was effort, energy and time gone and wasted. A couple of years later I went back to the story, especially since I originally got my story inspiration from a verse in the Bible, I gathered up determination to try to finish it.

I restarted it in winter of 2023, I’m not halfway through it, though I’m almost reaching 100 pages which is the most number of pages I’ve gotten through in a story, I’m still pushing through, trying to get that first draft done. Hopefully with the second draft, I can be more descriptive.

My artwork

Though this is not the verse that inspired me for this story, this is the main character of the story, it is an adventure fantasy young adult novel, I already have a title but I’m not ready to tell it yet. I hope to finish it soon. The artwork was published on March 15, 2021 on X (formerly twitter).