Chapter One
- May 11, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Mar 27
After six years, six long arduous years of writing and excessively worrying over edits, Time had called me back here. It has been a long while since my last post, many things have change since and this blog was certainly due for an update.
And after six long years, I can at last say that I am a published author.
'The Apprentice' was a book that began at university, sometime around 2020. Of course, with plenty of time to ponder, I developed a new fantastical whimsical world, known as Galena.
The story had changed a lot over those first few months, and there are a few changes that I wish I could have kept and incorporated into the new version (and I may just share some of them one day) but the story took a turn all on its own.
For those of you who are new to the journey to boil it down to one sentence, the novel follows rival Apprentices River and Skye who dread to lose their sorcery and embark on a quest to save their mentor after she falls ill. There's plenty more to the story than that, and plenty of characters who become important along the way, but telling that would be far too long here.
The book itself was finished around 2022... roughly. But I am an overthinker. A worrier. A perfectionist, at times. And I spent years - too many years some might say - editing. I wanted the story, and the writing, to be perfect. I wanted people to like it. It would be a little silly to say otherwise, wouldn't it? Some may say I overedited, and I guess only you can judge that.
It took me nearly six years - six years - to finally get to a place where I feel, somewhat, content with it.
But I love my book no matter. I can edit it again in the future, when my writing has much improved, for there's nothing wrong with that. I want to become a writer worthy of writing. And I will take every critique, feedback, positive compliment and angry letter, as s stepping stone towards becoming that person.
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