What It Meant Saying Goodbye to My First Novel
6 min readNov 1, 2020
After ten years of writing, I have decided to let go
In mid-2010, I started my first novel. I was fresh out of high school and had decided to pursue a writing career. I worked on this novel for the past ten years, struggling during my undergrad years, understanding more about the writing craft at my MFA program, and later working on it on my own at my local library and cafés. I have…
