Storytime: Lost Girl (Illustrated!)
Hey everyone! So, I’ve started a LotR fanfiction which I said I’d be posting every other week, but I have not written anything for it or done the cover. I’m sorry! But, to apologize, I will conducting an in-depth series of posts about my writing projects.
In this post, I’ll be talking about my (hopefully) debut novel. It’s currently called Lost Girl and is YA low fantasy. In it, a girl is found unconscious on the side of the road and the Bale family is asked to foster her since they found her. They agree and take the girl, whose name is Jasmine, in. Social Services is working to find her parents, but Jasmine has amnesia and can’t remember anything about her past except her name and a few sensations from an event leading to her traumatic shock. Jasmine, her foster sister, and a boy from school start looking for something…only they’re not sure what it is.
Susan Bale (pictured above) is one of three main protagonists. She is artsy and likes drawing, music, and chilling with her friends. She’s normally pretty outgoing and comfortable hanging out with anyone. She’s not squeamish about hanging out with her brother and his friends or wading into a lake with mud squishing between her toes. Her family agrees to foster Jasmine, and the two girls quickly form a connection, which comes in handy when Jasmine has to undertake a difficult journey.
Jasmine can’t remember anything before waking up in the hospital, only her name and a few sensations. She’s being fostered by the Bale family, and she loves them, but she also wants to find her family. Over the course of the book, memories start coming back to her. But with every good memory come dark forces desperate to keep her from realizing who she is.
Micah Wood is possibly one of my favorites. He’s a friend of Susan’s brother and has grown up around the Bales, so he’s naturally curious when Jasmine comes into the picture. As he gets to know her, he starts to develop feelings for her, but things start going odd. He suspects things are up, and when he discovers Jasmine and Susan exploring some unusual things, he gets wrapped up in situations bigger (and smaller) than he could ever expect.
The story hopefully will be a light, fun, intriguing story. It’s about friendship, and fantasy, and a little bit of young love. There will be dancing, and masquerade balls, and fairies, and an evil prince, and music. I think it’s going to be so great! If you’d like to see more of the inspiration for the story, check out my Pinterest board here.
So, I don’t really have much for this post, but I would like to close with a short poem that I think is really pretty and goes well with the story. It’s by William Shakespeare, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough wood, thorough fire!
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon’s sphere;
And I serve the Fairy Queen;
To dew her orbs upon the green;
The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours;
In those freckles live their savours;
I must go seek some dewdrops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslips ear.
Thanks for reading! Stay safe, and please drop a comment telling me if you liked this blog post, or if you’d like more information on Lost Girl. I still haven’t found the Subscribe button, so I’ll be asking my dad about that. Next week I promise to have my LotR fanfiction up. Bye!
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Elessar
July 6, 2020
Great! Sounds interesting.