Vanessa (V.P.) Eboneigh

The Artist Must Raise Everything to a Higher Level The artist must raise everything to a higher level: he is like a pump; inside him is a great pipe reaching down into the bowels of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was pooled beneath the surface and brings it forth into the sunlight in giant sprays. -GUSTAVE FLAUBERT This is very good advice. A person must challenge themselves with writing. Write genres you are not familiar with along with the genres you are familiar with. Write something new that is completely away from the ordinary things a person you read. To survive in this business, you have to do completely different things as possible.

Angels are everywhere now it appears, and stealing the thunder from vampires. First it was vampires, then werewolves, then fairies, now it angels who are floating to the shelves at Barnes and Noble. I was very curious about this book because the cover was so mysterious looking I had to see what it was about. In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees . .  Clara Gardner has recently learned that she's part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it means she has a purpose, something she was put on this earth to do. Figuring out what that is, though, isn't easy. Her visions of a raging forest fire and an alluring stranger lead her to a new school in a new town. When she meets Christian, who turns out to be the boy of her dreams (literally), everything seems to fall into place—and out of place at the same time. Because there's another g...

I am still in shock. I cannot believe in a month I wrote over 55,000 words in a month thank you very muchl. Now its not really a complete novel, it's a draft. But it's a start for the story I've been itching to write for a long time. I know when I go back and look at that draft it's going to be dreadful to look at, but I can at least get some accomplishment in the feeling that I wrote my first book.