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note: I wrote this post in April of 2019 (pre-COVID). It's been sitting in my drafts for quite a while, but I think it's time for it to see the light of day. It's been helpful for me to reread over the past few months, especially as I continue to try to make an effort to write, and I hope it can be helpful to you, too. i got an invite to a writers' group a few months ago, and i had never felt like more of a fraud in my life. it had been months, if not years, since i'd felt like a writer. the proverbial well of words in my heart had dried up, it seemed, and i wasn't sure if it was ever coming back. i agreed to go out of a sense of helplessness—i'd identified as a writer ever since i could remember. if i'm not a writer, who am i?  i told myself that it was important to show up and act like a writer even when i didn't feel like one, because even though i hadn't been writing, i reassured myself, i still was a writer. but sometimes the words f
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My Possible Summer Project


Ever since I finished Because We Can, I've been at a serious loss of what to write. I keep bouncing from project to project, mostly mentally. I'll decide to do one project, but then I'll move on.

It's a problem.

I started a book the other night, though, and I hope it sticks. It's been around for a very long time, since I was about 12 or 13. I've been wanting to rewrite it for a while, to make it something amazing. At the advice of a friend, I decided to start with a clean slate.

And here we are.

I'm not sure where it's going, or if it'll last, but I wish it would. I hope it does. I'm still looking in the meaning of all of it, but I'm having one heck of an emotional summer what with my Grandma, and all. And writing is one way I process that and take my mind off of it. So what better way to process my emotions than through a summer story about a band living their dreams? (And then those dreams falling apart? Bwahaha.)

So guys, meet Keni, John (HE NEEDS A NEW NAME FOR REAL GUYS because I already have a character named Jon), Adrie, Willow, and Milo. Milo is adorable and I love him already. Meet the novel that was first called my Keni story, then Somewhere in Neverland, and now (possibly) Something I Need. Meet my possibly-maybe-I-don't-know-we'll-see-summer-project.

Let's see where this takes us.

you've got something i need,
in this world full of people, there's one killing me
and if we only die once,
i wanna die with you
and if we only live once,
i wanna live with you

-onerepublic

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  1. Emily ChapmanJuly 1, 2014 at 10:55 PM

    I want to read this story. ^.^

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  2. CG @ Paper FuryJuly 2, 2014 at 1:58 AM

    I love the character photos you choose. They're always so so awesome. yay for summer stories! I love this already. :)

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  3. EmilyJuly 2, 2014 at 9:45 AM

    Sounds cool, keep writing! :D

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  4. AlannahJuly 2, 2014 at 2:17 PM

    This is so interesting... I really want to read this as soon as you have written it :D It'd kind of inspiring me to try my hand at writing as well!

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    1. Sky DestrianJuly 21, 2014 at 2:34 AM

      Aww, thank you so much, Alannah! That means so much to me! I'll keep you all posted! ;)

      Oh my goodness, that makes me so happy. You should totally try your hand at it; I can't recommend it enough. And let me know if you ever want to talk writing!

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  5. AnonymousJuly 30, 2014 at 8:01 PM

    This is great, and such an interesting idea! I saw this post recommended to me on bloglovin and clicked it because of the pictures, so that drew me in, but your writing about your writing kept me reading.
    I think it's so interesting that this is a story you've been working on, absently and physically, for years- I hope you keep working on it and it really takes shape and becomes what you envisage it being. x

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