Writing Is a Solitary Journey I Never Thought I Would Embark On

This isn’t what sixteen-year-old me planned at all.

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When I first started scribbling half-stories and unfinished scenes in my notebooks, I was in my sophomore year of high school. After a brush with the beginning of the Young Adult novel boom (yes, that book whose title rhymes with nightlight), I somehow thought my A’s in…