On a stormy night in 1995, a baby's crying can be heard. It floats through the halls and drifts under the crack of the door.



The father's eyes snap open. He stands, limbs groaning and creaking. Although he grumbles all the way, his expression softens at the sight of the baby. So small, so helpless. Such a miracle of life.



"A long, long time ago," he sings, his voice melodic and somnolent. "I can still remember how that music used to make me smile..."



He rocks… Continue

The first draft of my first novel is complete. I am excited beyond words. It is a feeling I want to share with other aspiring authors. I want them to experience it for themselves. And so, as a gift from me to you, I've written eight things all aspiring authors should have.

Keep in mind that this is an article from the perspective of a fifteen-year-old writer who desires more fame than his knowledge can back up. You've been warned. Take my advice with mountainous piles of… Continue

...And ended up writing an extensive summary. I am a single chapter away from the completion of the first draft of my first novel! You wanna read it, don't you? Well, if you insist:



The story is a young-adult modern-fantasy. It's told from the perspective

of fifteen-year-old Atticus Abernethy the Sixth. He comes home from

school one day to find police cars in front of his house. His father is

then forced into a police car by two unusually large, unusually… Continue