It is a real journey, I know that much. Since I´ve started this project, a few years ago, I have now only 24 pages written on. The creation of a new world takes a little more than most people think. First of all the name. Phann had several different names in the past, all which I probably cannot or wont remember. Then there are the people that live in that world, the environment, the... everything. The reason I could write Phann´s Vogel in six months is because the world already existed in my mind of previous stories I wrote, and finally the one I am writing right now. Yes, this book had started way before I even thought about writing a prequel.
It all started when I was fourteen. I bought a notebook (with the image of snoopy lying on his kennel on the front cover), and I started writing. It was about a lioness named Shari, who walked all the way from Afrika to Europe, because she wanted to be human. She met a fairy whose mother was a witch that could transform Shari into a human girl. They went to school and suddenly Shari was completely human and she sort of fell in love with a boy named Ethan who was very shy. Ethan then was kidnapped and Shari and her fairy sister went looking for him and found out that he was in a parallel world which was called the Wolves Island and could only be accessed though a map, haha. After that there were vampires, and centaurs and long lost brothers of Ethan and more of that sort.
In short, the story I wrote back when I was fourteen looks very much like the story I am writing right now. Except different and much better. After that there were also stories in the same style but none of them seemed to work. I didn´t write with a storyline back then which could lead to a writers block. That´s the reason why that story was never finished. In fact, Phann´s Vogel was the first ever story that I wrote with an end to it. When writing it, I felt very excited and sometimes anxious, for writing the end. What if I couldn´t write an end to a story. But luckily I could. And it gave me new energy to rewrite the story I started writing three years ago. And I think I have got a great new beginning to the book, and I may also already know an exciting ending to it. But you all have to wait for it. because the only one who will read it are my eyes and several other selected people.
That´s it for today, Goodnight and Have a scary Halloween.
