My First
- Author Danielle Sebastian Berry
- Mar 10, 2018
- 2 min read
The number one question I get is: What made me decide to write a book?
The answer to that is simple. I needed to get that first sentence out of my head. It kept playing over and over in my mind on a loop, badgering me to the point where it was keeping me up at night. I had been tossing and turning in bed with this one sentence that proved to be much more stubborn than I.
So I got out of bed, turned on my computer, opened a blank Word doc and typed it out with plans of getting back in my bed. There were no plans to write a novel. There were especially no plans to publish anything.
But to my dismay, that one sentence turned in to three, a paragraph then a chapter. When that chapter was done I was powerless against the one that came quickly after and my plans of lounging in my bed for the morning were lost.
I became a woman obsessed. Not with the sentence that had (unbeknownst to me) turned into a project, but with the need to get the constant flow of words out of my head and placed somewhere safe.
That morning slowly grew to meet the next three months of my life. Months when I spent every moment when I was not at work, in my office plugging away at my keyboard, bringing characters to life I had no idea where they were coming from.
I remember getting excited about Ainsley, Callum and the guys from Wicked. Then I remember dreading their story coming to an end once I was finished. But I was okay with it coming to an end because I needed to get back to my life.
Little did I know Phrasing was only the beginning. Because after I wrote that last sentence of the last chapter, another story began. A story that was deeply rooted in Phrasing. A story that would, like the first, not let me rest until I got it out.
In truth, my answer is not to the question of what made me decide to write a book. The correct question is why did I decide to become a writer?
I did not. I AM a writer. It's who I am. Not what I do.
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