Blogfest 2009

When I was in first grade I wrote a short story about a box of animal crackers that came to life and ran all over the kitchen and took a swim in a glass of milk. It was published in the school paper. It was about six sentences long. The first book I ever wrote was titled “Trust Me” and it was part of a series called Love Stories. It was the story of a girl whose boyfriend cheats on her and breaks her heart. Then, when she meets a great guy, she has major trust issues and always thinks he’s lying or sneaking off to meet another girl. She even sets him up to meet one of her hot friends to see if he asks her out. He passes the tests, of course, but he finds out what she’s doing and they have a huge fight before finally reconciling in the end. It was interesting for me to write because at the time I was in a relationship that wasn’t exactly full of trust. It kind of helped me realize that I needed to end it because it wasn’t healthy walking around being paranoid all the time. So I did, and the next guy I met was my future husband! See how writing can affect your life?

In the second grade, I wrote an adventurous romance about a merman who was a seaweed cutter.  The evil merman captured the merman’s girl friend in a net and the hero cut her out of the net with his axe.  Now I prefer stories about self-rescued heroines.