Aislinn O'Shea

Between Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and various other holidays I celebrate but others may not, I find it next to impossible to find time to write other than what I force myself to do for my stories. I was a rebel in high school english when I was required to keep a journal for grade, and it seems the habit extends well into my adulthood. It's not as much that I don't have anything to say; trust me, I have a lot of opinions, gripes, etc. It's just that most of the time there is too much traffic in my head. Instead, I find the need to focus that onslought of mental energy into another life; those of my characters. It does quite the job of keeping me sane - most of the time.

Phobia is still, still a work in progress. It has morphed several times in the last few months, but the plot has pretty much stayed the same. I have digressed my character in age, placing her into her teens and making this a young adult story now. She now deals with not only a severe phobia, but the loss of her parents, the move to a new school, town, way of life than she was used to and secure in before without friends and the only family a grandmother who was estranged from her mother. I am throwing a lot more obsticles at my character than before, a mystery within a mystery, and self discovery through coming of age. I have never worked this angle, so it will be quite interesting to see how I finish it. I plan on bringing her through teen to adult eventually - removing innocence violently to bring her to the brink of destruction of the good inside her to see if she perseveres; running the gauntlet from young adult into more of an adult graphic novel eventually. I have never seen this done, so I don't even know if it will work, but I can't stray from this course now. This story, my characters life, is so vivid in front of me now. Whether I ever sell or anyone ever reads it, it doesn't matter. I am compelled to write this and see it to the end. Obsession would be a good word for it.

I will start writing brief summaries of the chapters, to get a little feedback. I am also looking for readers, if anyone looks at this journal and is interested, please let me know. I am not a fast producer, as my day is filled between work, family, and home limiting me to the life of a night stalker as I write after midnight, so the process is slower than most I feel. Yet, I am proud to say, I am writing!