Why am I such a HUGE fan of novels? I've been asking myself that same question every time. A trip to the book store means that I'll always return home with a book and a satisfied grin. In fact it's been taking a toll on my budget. My shelves are full of novels that i've bought. My mom keeps complaining about the unnecessary money spend on buying fictional books until she put a restriction on me when going to the book store. But i just didn't listen and that was when i was still in high school. Now I'm in college all alone without supervision, you can imagine what I'm doing now.
I guess it all started in my teenage years, I've been reading English novels for all my life and being an English teacher's daughter means well, i must score well in the subject and i did, throughout my life (I'm not saying i'm totally perfect in English, i still sucks in grammar).
I forgot when was my first english novel but i read plenty of novels before that and my imagination kinda blossomed from the constant reading. You can actually learn a lot from novels. And you further improve from reading lots of novels. Don't ever be afraid of letting your child read too much "junk" novels, it's not! and don't think the "electronic nanny"(TV) is bad for them either. They can really learn english from both of these considered bad, source. I did learn my English that way. From TV, I learned how to pronounce correctly, from novels, i get my imagination and vocabulary. Now that's not the point.
But i discovered my love and passion for english language a little later in life, before that it's just an obligation to satisfy my mom. It all happened when Twilight saga became so famous that i guess being a novel freak i just have to try reading what's so interesting about this book that made all girls go berserk.
The storyline was interesting but that's not the thing that caught my real interest. The language that Stephenie Meyer used inside was absolutely beautiful. That was the first time i felt that English was so beautiful. Her vocab was real good and i saw the beauty of each word. I fell in love with her writing style. Later on my friend(who was even better in English) told me that her writing actually sucks. I got a little defensive cuz it's my favourite author she's mocking. But it never stopped me, in fact Steph Meyer INSPIRED me to write and i did, writing short stories about things that suddenly gave me inspiration to write. Over the next few years, i read various novels from different famous author such as Meg Cabot, Nicholas Sparks, Cecelia Ahern etc. I studied their writing skills and mix them up together then one particular brainstorm hit me and started writing my own novel in 2010, the idea just kept pouring in and I finished writing my first novel entitled "Brighter Days" by the middle of 2011. Although i've not shown much people my work (only few close friends), it felt really good.
I've develop a fondness of reading books published by Little Black Dress now, from there i can read from all sorts of random authors and learn from them.
I've recently started on my second novel "Leap Of Faith" and its still in the process. Before that i didn't put much research in writing Brighter Days but in this second novel, it's a much different level than my first and i put in extra effort and research to write it. So hopefully one day i'll get the guts to actually publish these novels. I'm still passionate when it comes to English language although I'm not taking English literature in college( oh surprise surprise!)
Don't get me wrong, i LOVE them to bits but i just don't want to make it a lifetime career. Writing is my favourite thing to do and i like to make it a part time job.
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