MelissaBaby
Wordy Bitch
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I started writing seriously last year. I wrote stories as a young girl, but fell out of it as I grew.
I began writing about my life experiences as means of catharsis and did so successfully from my perspective. I am pleased that My Fall and Rise received a very positive response from readers on Lit.
I had no plans to start another project, but by the time I had finished the last chapter of MFAR, I knew I wanted to keep writing.
I had written about extreme subjects; drug abuse, crime, imprisonment. But my life had changed. Speaking with a friend, I mentioned that I was learning just how much drama there was in the everyday comings and goings of "ordinary" people. That thought became the genesis of Mary and Alvin.
I decided to just create two characters and follow the course of their lives together. I am finding it very enjoyable to create and tell their tale. Mary is a big city California girl transplanted to a small town on the coast of Maine, where she meets Alvin, a native Mainer. He is a widower, almost 20 years her senior.
But Mary and Alvin is actually meant to be two love stories, that of the title characters and another, my own with my native state of Maine, which I truly love and deeply miss.
I don't know how long the story will go, but I have it outlined for at least twenty chapters.
I would be glad to answer any questions and welcome any critique from readers.
I began writing about my life experiences as means of catharsis and did so successfully from my perspective. I am pleased that My Fall and Rise received a very positive response from readers on Lit.
I had no plans to start another project, but by the time I had finished the last chapter of MFAR, I knew I wanted to keep writing.
I had written about extreme subjects; drug abuse, crime, imprisonment. But my life had changed. Speaking with a friend, I mentioned that I was learning just how much drama there was in the everyday comings and goings of "ordinary" people. That thought became the genesis of Mary and Alvin.
I decided to just create two characters and follow the course of their lives together. I am finding it very enjoyable to create and tell their tale. Mary is a big city California girl transplanted to a small town on the coast of Maine, where she meets Alvin, a native Mainer. He is a widower, almost 20 years her senior.
But Mary and Alvin is actually meant to be two love stories, that of the title characters and another, my own with my native state of Maine, which I truly love and deeply miss.
I don't know how long the story will go, but I have it outlined for at least twenty chapters.
I would be glad to answer any questions and welcome any critique from readers.