First Blog Post: The Then and Now
I’ve enjoyed writing since I was a kid. I would sit in the middle of class, on the bus, or in my room, writing whatever came to my mind. In English Class, 4th Grade, we would have these journals every morning. Almost all of them were creative writing or fiction-oriented.
I loved it.
Ever since then, I’ve focused on writing, that is, until I was 16. Once I turned 16, I discovered another love, this one for baking. Since then, cooking and baking have taken up most of my time; all of my jobs have involved it, whether it’s been a Restaurant, a Winery, a Bakery, or my current job as a Deli/Bakery Manager at a Foodlion town.
However, over the last month, since the beginning of April, I’ve returned to my love for writing. I’ve always jotted a note or two down on my phone or computer when something struck me, but for some reason, I couldn’t understand; I felt the urge to write a book.
So that’s what I did.
Over the last month and a few days, I have written 14 chapters and 36,000 words, sitting at a staggering 125 pages. It has been so fulfilling, and I’ve never been happier. So far, I’m roughly halfway through and planning on around 75,00 words and 28 to 30 chapters. It’s been a significant undertaking between writing and managing a bakery deli, but I’m so proud of this grand Fantasy Adventure. I’ll be calling it—
Storm Bringer’s Folly
Lilian Willow, an experienced adventurer, always felt as if she were already dead. Every day, she forced herself through the motions, completing whatever job she had at the time, stopping to help those who needed it, and pushing herself to travel when she should be sleeping to make up whatever time she lost. She felt like nothing in her life was going right. She was in her Fifth Guild and once more stuck at the lowest rank, F-Rank, once more overworking herself for an underpaid job months from home. As she dragged herself through the frozen waste she had inadvertently found herself in, she couldn’t help but explode, finally letting her bottled-up anger out into the world. She bludgeoned snow piles, kicked the frozen ground, and set fire to anything in sight, but eventually, she made her way to a large tree, so large in fact that it scrapped the heavens themselves: the Tree of Harbingers. There, she encounters a young man named Jordan Mayers, who helps her clear out a group of Pine Wolves that took up refuge under the massive tree’s branches, a request from a stranger as she made her way through a previous town. She felt a kinship with the boy and gave him advice on which Guilds to join, any Guild but hers. The boy is more energetic, insistent, and braver than most, but still, she tells him to choose any Guild but Renoma’s. So, after sneaking out in the early hours of the morning, she leaves the small town of Mantol as the sun’s rays gently peek over the horizon, happy and content for the first time in a long while.
That is a very condensed version of the first chapter of Storm Bringer’s Folly. I hope you enjoyed it and that you’ll look forward to its publication.
I thank you for taking the time to read this first post. I hope you tune in to my next post, which will include one of my personal favorite recipes, Lemon Berry Muffins.