Edit #2

So... I am a little behind, but still on track.

I edited on the computer the story and now I have printed it and I am ready for Draft 2: edit 2. Hopefully, throughout the editing process it gets less and less until I cannot fix anything else. I wrote my cover letter today, but that needs A LOT of editing. I put everything I want to put in it, not its just to fix it up and make it sound more professional. I am always worried that because, although I am an adult, I am younger and that people will feel I am incapable of being professional, which is not the case. I know how to be.

So, I have everything written out, now I just need to fix everything up and hopefully send it off soon. I still feel that the story needs a little more punch. It doesn't feel capturing enough, so hopefully that changes with edit 2.

The real issues I am having is the drawing. I am not a bad drawer, but I am not the best and it takes me a long time to draw ONE picture, I am nervous that after I get them all done, they will not be good enough and I will restart. We will have to see. I could also change the style of drawing as well, to make it less detailed and easier.

This is a short entry, but I was excited about finishing the cover letter, so I figured I would send it on here!

To the EDITING PROCESS !!

I'll keep you updated.

Doodlebug

It's been a while

So... I think it has been a while since my last post on the blog. I have been busy correcting, editing and such. I think the story is finally complete and perfect, in my own eyes, to be sent off. Now the task at hand it to write a cover letter that captivates; however, keeps a professional stance. This will be difficult. I will be sending to one publisher at a time; although, some might see that as taking my own sweet time, I don't want to get in the pickle, if I am accepted, of being accepted in two places, that would end tragically. Thus, the first publishing company I will send it to on Friday, I hope, if everything is done and I get the guts to do it. I am so scared that story isn't good enough. I tried really hard to captivate my audience, as well as teach them something valuable through the knowledge of reading. Reading has become so impossible to get kids to do these days because nothing interests them, so hopefully I can contribute to both helping them love to read through this and through what profession I am studying in. I never mentioned that did I? I am currently studying in University to become an elementary school teacher. I feel it is important for children to learn at a young age in order to captivate their love of learning in order to succeed in further education. Everything always starts at the base!

Anywho, so, so far, I have written the story, found a publishing company I can send to, and drew the first page in my book... 10 more to go! The picture took me an hour and a half!! For one picture! but it was pretty detailed and I wanted to get it as perfect as possible and having my perfectionist personality, well that never happened! Now the task either at hand AT THE MOMENT or tomorrow after work will be to write the cover letter. Once that is written, it must be proof read and probably changed up a little bit. Then everything gets sent out! It's nerve racking, you would never think so, but it seems even more scary sending this out as an adult, rather then when I was twelve. At twelve, apparently I didn't know what rejection felt like yet!

Along with all of this, I make my schedule at University next week! It's my first year actually in University. The way it works here is that you have to a do a 2 year pre-University post-secondary before going to University. I am nervous for that as well, but publishing this book would make the University experience that much better because I would probably be happy throughout my whole University experience.

I am truly hoping that this will go well! We will see.

I'll keep you updated.

Doodlebug.

New to This

So... this whole Blog thing is new, but seems interesting so I figure why not give it try. Do I introduce who I am? Or is that something I let other's figure out?

I am a boring person really, but sometimes life can get really interesting depending on who is in it. There are different explorations, ideas and people just around the corner, but sometimes we have to look. I enjoy knowledge, learning new things and trying new things. I started this at a very young age, and here is where the adventure begins.

When I was 12 years old I sent my manuscript, of a small picture book that I had written, off for publication. Of course, given the fact that I was so young, it never got accepted because it was 'too much stress to put on a young child'. Which we all know what that means right? It sucked. So I gave up on it, felt that I didn't have the talent that publishing companies wanted. But, as corny as this is going to sound, there was always an empty part in me, I still really enjoyed to write. So, I just wrote. I have a collection of children's stories, horror stories, gore stories (because horror and gore are two completely different genres if you ask me, one makes you fidget, the other just makes you puke). I just collected them. Huh, imagine that, I collected my own stories, weirdo. Anyway, so I put them aside, always thinking about one day maybe I would become a writer, but it was just a dream in my head. Nothing that could actually happen to someone like me. I grew up, sorta, and realized, as this may sound conceited, you know what, I might actually have some talent, maybe not a whole lot, but some. So here I am, quite a few years later, and not 12 anymore, and I am thinking about starting it back up again. Start writing again and SENDING it out to publishing companies that might accept my manuscripts or that might not. But how to we know that something CAN happen if we don't LET it happen. Writing, especially children's stories, is important, because when children read them, it is more than just standing up in a class and directing to the child on what they should learn. It is letting the child figure it out, for themselves, which, in my own opinion, helps them learn about life that much better.

So, I wrote my first draft of a completely NEW story, children's story, because my old stuff, it might be useful one day, but today is not that day. I have to edit it and change things up and all that fun and fancy stuff, but I will send it out. And we will see what happens, if they reject it, well I will keep editing it, make it that much more perfect and send it to a new one. I am not going to give up on a dream, because no matter who tells you that dreams don't come true, I always think "hey, they must be lying just to save all the dream catching to themselves". Let's change that.

So, here I am, sitting at this computer, ready to start a new adventure, a doodlebug adventure. Without letting anything get in my way this time.

I'll keep you updated.

-Doodlebug