![]() ![]() I call it ‘The Kissing Booth’ so I’ll remember which story it is, and figure I’ll come up with a better title later. Then, a few months later, I start writing this story about a girl with a fun-loving male best friend she’s not going to fall in love with, who’s going to have her first kiss with the best friend’s bad-boy older brother at a school carnival kissing booth.Ī few chapters in, I save the file. This was just like that, at the beginning. ![]() I was on Tumblr during SuperWhoLock era and I was anonymous on there. And again - that didn’t feel like some revolutionary thing. When I discovered the online story-sharing platform Wattpad in 2010, I lurked on there as a reader for a while before plucking up the courage to anonymously post a story I’d been working on. I’d write at night, learning to touch type in the dark after everyone else in the house was fast asleep, when they thought I was fast asleep too. I’d say I was doing homework or, later, that I was on Facebook. I didn’t tell anybody that’s what I was doing. I’ve loved writing stories for as long as I can remember (I was writing Harry Potter fanfiction when I was seven years old, long before I’d ever hear the term ‘fanfiction’) and when my parents gave me an old laptop to do homework when I was 11, I began using it to write stories. Now the idea of ‘I’m going to write a book’ didn’t feel like some kind of scary, revolutionary concept to me back then. I wanted a regular high school romance, where the guy best friend wasn’t a love interest.Īnd when I couldn’t find that story to read, I wrote it. Don’t get me wrong, I loved these books, and I read plenty of them - but at some point, I was tired of it. In the summer of 2011, in the middle of my GCSE exams, I started writing a book that would change my whole life.Īt that point, I was fifteen years old and every teen romance novel I picked up was Twilight-era paranormal and every one of them seemed to involve a love triangle - specifically with a male best friend. ![]()
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