This year, my project is to write start a novel. I have a love of young adult fiction, but I’d also like to cross it with an adult companion novel. I think it would be really cool for adults to be able to read a similar story that intersects somehow with what their child is reading. I am not sure how that will work, but I have had the idea in the back of my head for so long that it is time to put myself to work. For my mentor, I belong to a creative group that is full of unique thinkers and a few writers that could support me. I thought I could also ask Dr. Mac since he lives close by and is a recently published author of the novel Refuge. A few people have suggested that I participate in NaNoWriMo, where you write 50,000 words during the month of November, but I am not sure that I will be ready for that. Right now, my first steps are to solidify a mentor and to brainstorm the world that I will be creating, perhaps sketching out some story arcs or doing a bit of background research.
