Persephone Incarnate [Wattpad Prize 2014] | ✔️

Author's Note

Okay, so I know this can get a bit tiring to listen to, seeing as how I've literally been talking this entire book about "thanking you guys" and this and that.

But I needed an official note. Like, an official, official, sort of thing.

And here is an entire chapter for it.

So, I'm writing all of this from the heart, I swear. I'll try not to fake or cheesy - because to be honest, there are just some times when you don't know what to say and you follow this "template" of a sort in order to sound polite and still carry on a semi-conversation.

Writing Persephone Incarnate was in no way easy. It was fun, yes, but it took commitment and time and lots of hair-tearing moments. This was the first story that I officially finished, and I started writing it in November/December - even though it was for Nanowrimo. I finished it in earnest in January though, and did some polishing and revision work in February.

I had heard earlier in the year that Nano was cooperating with Lulu to bring all writers who had wrote things during Nanowrimo a hardcover copy of their story, and I was duly excited for this. I guess you could say this was a pretty HUGE motivator. I really wanted to finish Persephone Incarnate and be able to proudly say that my own story was on my own bookshelf.

There are honestly only two hardcover copies of PI out in the world. I have one, and one of my close friends has the other.

It's in no way a good story - there are so many flaws in it, and still plot holes, and the ending needs to fixed majorly, since Chapters 24-30 were pretty anticlimatic and didn't quite fulfill the vision of the ending that I had. There are also abundant amounts of typos and grammar errors as some of you have been kind of enough to point out to me.

But it's stil my first finished work. And I am proud of it. 

I hope you guys had fun reading it as well, and it at least wasn't a TOTAL waste of your time. I know there are better stories out there - FAR better. In my class alone, there are multiple people who write a stronger tone, different voice, and varying styles, and I envy them. 

My whole life has been about finding something I'm good at.

And writing happens to be it.

But what I like about it is that there isn't necessarily a bad or a good. Just a good and a better and an excellent, and then like, J.K Rowling/Suzanne Collins/Veroniza Roth/Neal Schusterman-level -- celebrities, almost. 

I will be spending my entire life just trying, even grasping for a chance to be a "better" or an "excellent" writer. Who knows if I'll reach it?

Persephone Incarnate is just my first step.