Ananda

I wanted to share the first paragraph of what I am attempting to make my book with you, Rooks. What do you think about telling the story from the sidekick’s point of view? This story will contain intense clichés, that get taken the piss out of, as well as an adequate amount of action.

I’ve been brought up watching and reading all about strong and powerful women. Mostly fiction, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer—and every other female protagonist from every dystopian novel ever—but also people that really existed like Anne Frank, and every queen that ever lived. While I knew it was stupid and practically impossible, I would wish I could be like them, that one day I would wake up and be different. I wanted to open my eyes on my 13th/16th/18th birthday and be blessed with some supernatural power, or the knowledge that I was the chosen one. Of course this never happened, however many wishes I made and books I read. I’ve always just been ordinary.

How do you think I felt when it turned out my best friend had supernatural powers, when my best friend was the chosen one? Exactly.

She’s tall, slim, blonde, and beautiful. She’s got a tragic backstory and an action-packed social life, yet she still manages to keep up perfect grades. So if were being honest I was already jealous, and then she goes and tells me that she can move things with her mind and has superhuman strength. I was kind of bummed. ♦