How I Write

As a little kid, I told my parents I wanted to be an eye doctor, even one day own my own fashion magazine, but therein didn’t lie what I wanted to do.

Growing up, I despised the very idea of homework, but who didn’t, right? It was exhausting picking up your pen or pencil to answer the endless barrage of questions in a workbook that you simply had to read an assigned textbook to locate the right answer. Things changed and now you’re presented with the idea of writing essays and longer reports than what was used to in previous grades. I was taught that outlining your essay, report, or whatever, would help guide me through the writing process. I took stabs at outlining—it was a drag. So I stopped the whole outlining thing. That’s not to say it isn’t valuable because it is for those who find peace of mind in creating outlines for guidance.

I realized a little later on in high school, that I could dive right into the assignment without pre-thinking the course of the work. This helped my anxieties level off by simply throwing myself into the actual writing itself.

What’s important to note is that jotting down notes is very helpful along the way, and you’ll thank yourself later for scribbling something down.

When I began work on A Story of Gylranor, I lunged myself deeply into it without a care other than writing a good tale. However, this is where things got a little tricky—a bit of confusion fell over me. I needed something a bit more visual, so I created a full map of the entire world of Gylranor. I needed to ensure I knew where my characters were going. Talk about an outline…Ironic, isn’t it?