Thursday, January 30, 2014
Namesake
A poem by Mycheille Norvell
It is not just a name
but a lifetime;
It is not just a name,
but a way to call you mine;
It is not a just a name,
it is knowing,
and believing it's true;
It's not just a name,
but a thousand 'I love yous'
Beginning with 'I do'
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
First things First
Hello there,
My name is Mycheille and since you took the time to stumble upon my blog, I figure I should take the time to introduce myself. First off, I am a mother of one, Abby Dawn, who currently is 13 months old. She is such a joy, though quite the mischievous little tyke. I am 23, and got married to my high school sweetheart when I was 21 years old. I believe in love and romance, and even if sometimes we all forget to show it, I don't think romance can ever truly die unless you let it. Another basic to know about me is that I am currently in school at Full Sail University for the Creative Writing for Entertainment program. I graduate in October 2014, and I cannot wait to finally get my degree! This particular blog is not going into huge detail about my child or my husband, though later I will surely blab on and on about them. This blog post is meant to express one thing today: I am a writer.
Now more about my writing for today. I started writing when I was incredibly young, long before I could actually write anything down or even remember what I had written moments before. I started my writing journey with songs since my dad is a musician.
No... let's start over. I'm a writer. That is who I am and what defines me in many ways. Without writing I would not be me any longer, though I would still be a nice enough person, and decent enough at many things... but without writing I would be a shell of who I really am. We each have something within us that calls to us in our sleep: maybe it is the one you love, or that thing you always forget to do, or maybe, just maybe, it is the very thing you are meant to do with your life. I was lucky to have that call when I was young. I loved to sing, and I used to believe that my calling was to be a singer, but only if I could write my own songs. Later, I wanted to be an English teacher, shocking my young friends when we were 13 to have such an odd aspiration, but I wanted to have a composition class. It wasn't until I was 16 after entering into a Creative Writing class that I finally realized what I had been oddly avoiding my entire life: I was meant to write.
I still remember my teacher at the time, the laugh he would give when he would hear my new open mic piece for the class. He finally told me one day that when it came to writing, I was fearless, and that gave me the confidence to see I had been fighting a losing battle with myself. There is nothing wrong with being a teacher, nor is there with wanting to be a singer, but when you are meant to do something, and you keep yourself from doing it for no real good reason besides fear, you are losing the battle.
I was just about to get married when I finally sent in my first manuscript to a publisher. I had prepared myself for rejection since that is what I had been reminded would happen constantly from professors and other writers. So imagine my shock when, two weeks later, I received an acceptance letter from this publisher saying they wanted my manuscript. I'm sure the question you are asking now is: well Mycheille, if your manuscript was accepted, why isn't on the store shelves? Well that question has a frustrating answer, and that is that this publisher wanted money from me to publish my book. I was so blinded by the desire to get published I almost made a huge mistake, especially knowing what I do now about publishers. This was a real publisher who has published many books, with a few that have gone on to win awards, but to no real help of the publisher but the person whose book was sold. I'm blessed to have had an agent tell me after reading the contract I almost signed, that if a publisher wanted my book after 10 pages and only after 2 weeks of waiting, then another one will as well, but that one will pay me instead.
I am currently sending out my first book in my newest series, The Dangerous Gift, in The Decider series. It will be three books, and I am already halfway through at least with the second book. I hope that someday soon you all have the chance to read them!
Though this blog most may seem like something so insignificant to many of you, it is fulfilling something important: it is telling the world that I am not afraid to say that I am a writer from deep inside my soul. Whether this touches you to find your very own calling, or whether it gets you to follow my writing in this blog for future posts, it all depends on what you take away from this.
I hope you enjoyed getting to know me a little bit. I will post throughout each week, and sometimes there will be more posts than others, while other weeks I may not post at all.
Have a great day
~Mycheille~
My name is Mycheille and since you took the time to stumble upon my blog, I figure I should take the time to introduce myself. First off, I am a mother of one, Abby Dawn, who currently is 13 months old. She is such a joy, though quite the mischievous little tyke. I am 23, and got married to my high school sweetheart when I was 21 years old. I believe in love and romance, and even if sometimes we all forget to show it, I don't think romance can ever truly die unless you let it. Another basic to know about me is that I am currently in school at Full Sail University for the Creative Writing for Entertainment program. I graduate in October 2014, and I cannot wait to finally get my degree! This particular blog is not going into huge detail about my child or my husband, though later I will surely blab on and on about them. This blog post is meant to express one thing today: I am a writer.
Now more about my writing for today. I started writing when I was incredibly young, long before I could actually write anything down or even remember what I had written moments before. I started my writing journey with songs since my dad is a musician.
No... let's start over. I'm a writer. That is who I am and what defines me in many ways. Without writing I would not be me any longer, though I would still be a nice enough person, and decent enough at many things... but without writing I would be a shell of who I really am. We each have something within us that calls to us in our sleep: maybe it is the one you love, or that thing you always forget to do, or maybe, just maybe, it is the very thing you are meant to do with your life. I was lucky to have that call when I was young. I loved to sing, and I used to believe that my calling was to be a singer, but only if I could write my own songs. Later, I wanted to be an English teacher, shocking my young friends when we were 13 to have such an odd aspiration, but I wanted to have a composition class. It wasn't until I was 16 after entering into a Creative Writing class that I finally realized what I had been oddly avoiding my entire life: I was meant to write.
I still remember my teacher at the time, the laugh he would give when he would hear my new open mic piece for the class. He finally told me one day that when it came to writing, I was fearless, and that gave me the confidence to see I had been fighting a losing battle with myself. There is nothing wrong with being a teacher, nor is there with wanting to be a singer, but when you are meant to do something, and you keep yourself from doing it for no real good reason besides fear, you are losing the battle.
I was just about to get married when I finally sent in my first manuscript to a publisher. I had prepared myself for rejection since that is what I had been reminded would happen constantly from professors and other writers. So imagine my shock when, two weeks later, I received an acceptance letter from this publisher saying they wanted my manuscript. I'm sure the question you are asking now is: well Mycheille, if your manuscript was accepted, why isn't on the store shelves? Well that question has a frustrating answer, and that is that this publisher wanted money from me to publish my book. I was so blinded by the desire to get published I almost made a huge mistake, especially knowing what I do now about publishers. This was a real publisher who has published many books, with a few that have gone on to win awards, but to no real help of the publisher but the person whose book was sold. I'm blessed to have had an agent tell me after reading the contract I almost signed, that if a publisher wanted my book after 10 pages and only after 2 weeks of waiting, then another one will as well, but that one will pay me instead.
I am currently sending out my first book in my newest series, The Dangerous Gift, in The Decider series. It will be three books, and I am already halfway through at least with the second book. I hope that someday soon you all have the chance to read them!
Though this blog most may seem like something so insignificant to many of you, it is fulfilling something important: it is telling the world that I am not afraid to say that I am a writer from deep inside my soul. Whether this touches you to find your very own calling, or whether it gets you to follow my writing in this blog for future posts, it all depends on what you take away from this.
I hope you enjoyed getting to know me a little bit. I will post throughout each week, and sometimes there will be more posts than others, while other weeks I may not post at all.
Have a great day
~Mycheille~
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