Hello again!
So, you've stumbled across my website! If you haven't had a chance to browse the tabs yet, you should know, it's a little empty. It's not that I'm lazy or not interesting enough to fill the site - although those aren't far from the truth. It's just that this is still new to me.
I used to blog and write all the time, back when life was easier. Now, I'm a full time hairstylist in Cranberry, Pennsylvania. I've been doing hair for almost three years, and throughout that time I haven't found myself entirely satisfied. When I'm not at work I'm usually doing homework for the online classes I take through Southern New Hampshire University. SNHU and work fill a lot of my time, but this year I found myself returning to my true passion: writing.
I started writing when I was 13. It was summer, and I'd exhausted the books my parents could afford to keep me entertained. Determined not to run out of reading material, I started writing my own books. I've never been particularly skilled at short stories or poems, so I went right into novel writing.
After a handful of failures, I self-published my first abomination in 2014 (I think). This abomination - my pride and joy at the time - was titled: The Little Paragons.
What followed this first publications was a second titled: The Little Villains. To be honest, I've read worse, but they weren't anything spectacular.
As I was about to graduate and move forward with my life, I finished the final novel in the series: A Little Trouble. Unfortunately, life said, "Madison, this book isn't going to happen. You've changed writing styles over the years, you're busy with your first job, and you've just stepped into the adult dating world. Who do you think you are, trying to write another book now?"
Discouraged by self-doubt and frustration, the book went where all novels go to die: a file named "writing stuff."
It was years before I tried writing anything again. There were ideas here and there but never any time to make them into something decent.
That is, until 2020, the year from hell.
I hadn't had time off since high school prior to March 2020. I hadn't known what to do with myself when the salon shut down and left me with hours on end with nothing to do. I'd read a lot, then watched a lot of TV. At last, I find myself in the same dilemma as 13-year-old Madison: I was out of stuff to do.
Bored beyond belief, I turned to an old project labeled "summer camp book" on my laptop. It wasn't very good. The outline was done, but the manuscript was only half written. It would take time to finish and edit...
Lucky for me, all I had was time.
Months passed and eventually I went back to work. The book was done and almost edited, but I didn't have time to finish it. I thought Lost in Lake Anthony was doomed to join A Little Trouble in it's fate.
Somehow, it didn't. I'm not sure what was different this time. Maybe I was too stubborn to give up on the novel. Maybe I was too scared of failure.
Whatever it is, I'm pleased to announce I'm writing again and with more passion and skill than ever before. There's no choice, but to stick it out this time. This is my life and I intend to do something with it!
Thank you for coming to my website. I hope you stay for a while!
Madison
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