Hey everyone. Welcome to Essentuate life! This website is for me to document my progress on my novel and other things on life. I’ll be sharing my own experiences with my health and the way I’m healing my thyroid– naturally! And so much more!
Local Book that Inspired My Novel
First off, if you didn’t know, I finished my first novel currently called Psyche Twist. It’s been fifteen years since I wrote this fairy tale. I had first wrote it when I was ten years old. I was a reader of the Chronicles of Narnia and a series I read and instantly fell in love with: Serpent’s Egg by J. Fitzgerald McCurdy. This was THE book that inspired me so much I wanted to write something like it– about a parallel world of magic and intrigue. I wanted to transport myself into a world where there was no impossible and that I could share a message. At that young age my imagination was at its peak and all I wanted to share was the adventure I so wished to be in.
Digging up the story
Long after, the story I treasured remained hidden. School and family took over my life and it was buried away like a chest of jewels. A few years ago my curiosity sparked when InuYasha –the anime that changed my life– had me writing again. It was wonderful, but also scary. I was expressing emotions and thoughts I thought I’d never indulge in. The action, the characters and their struggles toward good and their own relationships had me fall in Love with InuYasha and it was the driving force in having me reconnect with my writing side.
Connecting with the Character
It was love at first sight with InuYasha the character and his story. He was a character who felt out-of-place and wanted to be accepted and loved. He couldn’t find his place, so he decided he’d make his own. As a teenager, it was only normal I wanted to be accepted and loved for who I was. And so, as I followed the feudal tale, so began my own journey.
Transforming my story
Psyche Twist grew along with me. Its name has been changed three times, three drafts and now this is the fourth. I’ve changed only two characters names so far. I learned about story structure and how to make my characters much more complex and give them richer personalities. Something creepy or even funny, is that my anti-hero: Eisen’s demon name was made up by me. When I searched to give him a last name, I found out his first name meant ‘possessor of ‘ strange right? His last name’s meaning is evil. So his full demon name translates to ‘possessor of evil.’
I am delighted to say that I’m working on getting an agent and soon, I know one day I’ll be holding my novel Psyche Twist in my hands. I hope that it will bring in others the same visceral love and inspiration it was so fondly crafted from.