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My purpose with this blog is to interactively work through the process of writing my first young adult book, tentatively titled Perdition. The briefest way I could explain the general idea is that it's meant to be like Twilight but with a girl who's both less and more sure of herself than Bella, a ghost on a sinister mission, and a crazy extended family. Don't worry there will still be a love triangle. However, I certainly don't intend this to be a romance first. It's much more about coming-of-age, family, and loss. My plan is to work my way through the process, including research (such as reviews of other books I read for inspiration along the way), character sketches, pleas for help, and whatever else might crop up along the way. If you'd prefer just to read the book as it's developed, you can visit the secondary page. Here goes nothing...

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Did I Mention There's a Ghost That's Out to Get Persis?

Here's the next section of the introduction, which fleshes out the book's opening. 


Perdition

I shouldn't be here but for that moment's hesitation, the last thing I remember. Now all I am is now, watching, waiting for years on end, or so it seems--time means nothing here. 

There is hope, however; a glimmer of possibility and change. I have been tasked with watching her. She can't see me yet, they've assured me that much though she can see some of the others. I am to decide when to reveal myself, to insinuate myself.  If I do what they tell me then, they say, and only then, can I move on.  They will give me the powers I need to deceive her. 

Those around me whisper that beyond is worse, but nothing can be worse that this flat, gray, endless monotony.


I will do anything to get out of this place. 

Unpublished work © 2013 Allison KT
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