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“I Just Wanna Be Someone!”

A Young Author's Notebook
5 min readFeb 15, 2025

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“Why don’t you self-publish your books again?”

Says, my husband, as I am rejected by a publisher.

This may be a stab at those who have self-published a book, and have done well with it: NO. I AM NOT GOING THAT ROUTE WITH THIS NOVEL.

This novel is wayyy to big for that. Some people do very well with that, but I have not had that experience.

Sometimes, when I write, I try to get people to really read my writing and give me some good feedback and if it’s not, then I try to work on what’s wrong.

A while ago, I had left a writing group, that made me really question if I was even a good writer?

When I began drafting a novel based on my grandpa’s teenage years, I was a litle thrilled, but at the same time, nervous.

When I was in the writing group, I was told how much my writing “Sucked”- no good things about it. Then there is the writing group I am apart of now, they seem to like the writing that I do.

The thing about me- is that I dream really big. I have grand ideas and yet, I know that half of them won’t even come true.

“Kate’s that not a great way to think, if you manifest them long enough, they will come true.” I hope that it will. The things that I want, is for…

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A Young Author's Notebook
A Young Author's Notebook

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Kate. Autistic. I am a Jewish woman who doesn't have a clue of what's she's doing, so bear with me.

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