Writer

This has got to be the biggest (and hardest) profession. I love and hate writing. I'd spend hundreds of hours on my book, but when I have to write a response with two additional comments then I'm tapped out. It's mostly because of how I'm unable to write what I want versus the cirriculum that's given.

Where did It Start?

Once upon a time, there was a young boy who had a big imagination. He had hundreds of stories, but he also had a speech delay that made things worse. That boy was also me, and while I overcame my speech delay there are still many challanges.

The Challenges

I never said this was going to be easy. Honestly, writing is a double-edged sword. I hate having to edit my book constantly, but it's what I have to do. I hate people critiquing my story because to me it sounds like they're critiquing me as a person, but it's what I have to do. I developed carpal tunnel after doing all these classes online, making my right hand tingle and feel like it's possessed by a work-driven spirit, but that's life I guess.

Pride and Joy

Back in High School, I had an idea that was based on stories my younger sister and I made. It was a very wild and convoluted multiverse about a guy named Benjamin who fought monsters and found love. It was to vivid and crazy, but I wanted to make that into an actual book. That was back in 2019. It took me six years to finish. Six years. Compared to other authors, it might not be as long. But who else do you know publishes a book in their early twenties? And not just any rinky-dink novel. An actual masterpiece. The reason it took so long was because I rewrote it over and over, but as I rewrote it, I got better at it. My grammar and vocabulary went through the roof, my friends who thought it was mid at first praised it, and now I'm excited to say that I'm an official author.

Self Image Summary

In the suburbs of Antioch, California: BENJAMIN just wants to live a normal life. After his girlfriend dumped him, his father died, and his arm amputated: the quiet loner wants nothing to do with the world. But he gets dragged into a party by a close friend, meets a cute girl with a twisted personality, and gets pulled into a world that he never knew existed. One of Angels and Demons battling over human domination.

In the countryside of Maui, Hawaii: AKANE is barely holding herself together. Part of a covert organization, Exodus, she fights monsters that threaten to destroy the world. But when she finds out that her close friend was found dead in Antioch, she visits the mainland and tries to prove Exodus wrong.

Self-Image is an urban fantasy about grief, idenity, and the painful process of accepting yourself for who you are.

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