Well, hello! Welcome to the inside of my brain. 😛 Sometimes I’ll randomly post updates on how my personal writing progress is coming along. A few of these entries were written a while back before I started this website, but I thought it would be good to include them now to show you how I came to the idea of wanting to start Young Writers’ Draft. I will tell you in advance, I tend to use A LOT of hashtags, exclamation points, and emojis. Also, my thoughts tend to be sporadic or completely written in text. Do I talk like a super preppy person in real life? No. Just bear with me and I hope this will encourage you to document your own writing progress too. I can’t tell you how amazing it feels when you can go back and read over your what you’ve done in the past. It always puts me in a good mood. 🙂

One more thing…Currently I am working on many stories. Right now, I have two major series, one in FF (Fantasy Fiction) and one in CCR (Contemporary Christian Romance). The FF one has about 5 books in it (hopefully) and the CCR one has 3 main ones and several spin-off stories. I have been working on the FF series since I came up with the idea in 5th grade. The CCR one is based on a dream I had a few years ago. Finally,  if I don’t mention my stories’ word counts in my updates, then they haven’t changed, or I forgot. 😛

6/3/15

So I’m in the process of updating all my stories from my notebooks to my computer. Its SUPER SLOW, but I’m up to about 27 pages on the second book of my FF one (which is crazy, because I haven’t really worked on the first one at all :P), and my first CCR novel is about 70 pages. I still haven’t transferred that one though.

7/3/15

Spent 10 days in my hometown near the beach indulging in all things mermaid! Thinking about writing a mermaid series now… Did some editing and transferring of my CCR story, but its soooooo long and painful 😛 I managed to document each day of my vacation though, and that was fun. 🙂

1/3/16

SNAP I JUST REALIZED THAT THIS POST IS EXACTLY 6 MONTHS FROM WHEN I LAST WROTE IN THIS THING. #win Anyway, I’ve organized each of my FF stories by excerpts, developed about 5 new stories based on a mash up of fairytales, done several magical art projects, FINISHED NANOWRIMO AND ALMOST DIED BUT I GOT A LOT OF WRITING DONE FOR MY CCR SERIES, and wrote a few random excerpts/story ideas down. Whew. I think that’s it. Oh, and starting this year, I’m going to shoot for writing at least 600 words a day, every day. Please pray for me. Fail already on the first and second day and I’m so tired today (because I couldn’t take my nap! ughhh!) that I just typed up an excerpt I wrote a while back and counted that for today’s entry. It’s 871 words. Also, I was going to do a word count update, but I have a lot of stories right now so I’ll just do my most developed/longest one for now…my word count for the CCR Series is about 53,000 words…#whohoo #praisetheLord 🙂 Ttyl!

2/11/16

Not exactly a month later but…whateves. 😛 So, gave up on the writing so many words a day thing. Yea…it’s depressing how much writing I HAVEN’T done. However, I have been coming up with like random story ideas like every day during the most random times of the day. Like, I have 4 new ideas that have been swimming around in my head, like fish in a pond, begging to be fed. BUT IM SO NOT MOTIVATED TO ACTUALLY WRITE ANYTHING! UGH!!!!! I feel like I need some variety in my writing style/word choice because I feel like I’m writing the same things over and over again. The ideas are new, but the words used to describe them are not, and it’s so frustrating. Anyway, that’s all for now.

3/6/16

Updated Story Word Counts:

– For CCR Series Book 1 = 45,366, Book 2 = 3,985, Book 3 = 3,179

–  For FF Series: Book 1 = 1,606, Book 2 = 9,935, Book 3 = 12,474, Book 4 = 4,789, Book 5 = 1,103

4/6/16

Hey a month exactly! YAS! #backontrack 😛 Haven’t done a lot of writing, but worked on Pinterest and been feeling artsy! :3 Had a new CCR story idea! Not going to give anything away except for that it’s about an arranged marriage. I think it’s going to be a good one!

5/7/16

A DAY OFF! UGH!!!!! whateves. So, didn’t do much this month. Actually, lie. That’s not true. I finally came up with a name for the story idea I mentioned in my post last month. Also, since I had so many random scene ideas for this one, I started to put them all in order (first in my head, then on paper) as a sort of rough outline/scene sequence chart in one of my NEW composition notebooks. I thought it wouldn’t take that long. It turned out to be 16 pages, with 84 plot points (that’s not counting the scenes within each chapter, what the chapter sections are, and how many excerpts make up each scene within the chapters :P). I also wrote out which characters from my other CCR stories will be in it, what their relation to the main characters are, possible Christian themes, and symbols that will repeated throughout the story. Then, I also wrote an outline for the Book 1 CCR short story prequel that I have to write for my Writing Workshop class (best class EVER!!!). Now, all I have to do (I’ve figured out the who, what, when, where, and why already) is write it. Haha. Hahahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHA. So, yea. I’ve done a lot of writing for my writing class this month and even made some excerpt idea jars. Now, I’m thinking about writing a book review every time I finish a book. They are going to be a little different than typical book reviews that focus mostly on how good the story is. Mine will be from a writer’s perspective, talking about what I took away from the style, and what I want to use in my own writing. Looking forward to it! I’ve already completed my notes for two books, and it’s like 9 pages! Anyway, wish me luck!