Here’s a notebook addict who used her collection to accomplish something amazing:
A Wisconsin teenager named Cayla Kluver kept notebooks, lots of them. These colorful spiral notebooks are the kind you get at the local pharmacy or supermarket. Nothing fancy, but the perfect canvas for personalizing, or maybe writing a narrative. On those pages, Cayla set down story lines, kept lists of characters’ names and attributes, established bloodlines, and mapped an entire kingdom named Hytanica. Her notes evolved into Legacy
, a five-hundred page YA novel that she published at the tender age of fourteen.
More details and photos at the Shelfari blog.
Wow, this is inspiration to all of us adult writers who have yet to complete our novels, poems, screenplays, etc.
Nice posting for today!
That’s so neat! I write a novel every year in November for NaNoWriMo, but…as far as building a universe, I prefer to stay in this one…it’s FAR less work.