Hello, all!
I have written 4.5 pages of the book so far, and it's going pretty well. I'm not sure where some of these characters came from, or what their intentions are, but I like them so far. There's a half-human named Sam, who popped up at the coffee shop but not at Genesis's house for the gathering of friends. There's William, who is half Thunderhead (whatever that is) on his mother's side, and the twins, Jessie and Alvin, who are fire elementals, and Shelby, an ancient, very Southern shape-shifter. There is also the only human character thus far, Mark, who is friends with Jessie. I think they're about to order take-out, but who knows. The characters have a mind of their own, and words just flow onto the paper.
I doubt John Green will ever see the message I sent him about being my mentor considering he gets thousands of emails, tweets, and messages on tumblr a day. I'll probably ask Mr. Murphy this week. Part of me doesn't want a mentor; I probably need one though, someone with experience to read over what I'm doing. When I started writing these stories in seventh grade, (I called them books then, though they were 40 pages at longest), I had a mentor. Her name was Ann, and she was in her late 60's, early 70's or so. She wrote books about youth Sunday school, and helped out with the youth group at the church since my mom grew up there. For the last month or so of school, I'd go over to her house on Tuesday afternoons and we'd read through what I'd written and make edits. She'd had scoliosis her whole life and was about to have surgery. It went well, but afterwards she died of a brain clot. I was on a mission trip when it happened. I haven't let anyone help me out with my writing since. Part of me doesn't want to, but Mr. Murphy is fantastic and has published the types of books I write, so his input would be very helpful to me.
This next week I hope to finish the first chapter, get a good way through another, and ask Mr. Murphy to be my mentor.
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