I, Wizards, and Mutants

I'm doing something really stupid right now:  telling you about my novel. No one knows about this novel, I mean except my high school friends. I've never really talked about it to anyone I met after finishing high school. I never wanted to talk about it, actually. But then when I was showering this morning, my mind travelled to my senior high school memories and to this novel and I was like, "I can't believe it, I never mentioned a word about my novel on my blog."

So here is the story. A few years ago when I was a 2nd grader of senior high school, our Bahasa Indonesia teacher gave everyone of us an assignment to write a novel, print it, and then collect it at the end of the year.  Our novels should not be less than 100 pages and in the end they would be put in the library so our juniors could read them.

Most of us wrote about love, about teenage life, which, as I read them, was mostly inspired by their own life story. There were also plenty of who wrote a sort of mystery, though, something that drained your brain a little. But there I was, a Potter geek,  wrote about wizards and mutants. Haha.. what a freak.

Inspired by Harry Potter, X-Men, Fantastic 4, and Meg Cabot's All American Girl, I named the novel The End of Magic. It tells about, yeah you know, parallel worlds between our world and the magical world. Humans have become very powerful in the very modern era and the wizards always live hidden in the ancient, magical world which is about to end. And Luna, a newbie witch, finds a secret that leads her the the challenge of saving her magical world from the mutants. Yeah, mainly, it’s about the feud between wizards and mutants.

This is the draft in microsoft words.  221 pages. And I've no idea why I couldn't find any picture of the printed one. Thinking maybe I could go sneaking into the library and steal my own novel.

I thought very hard to find a place which can be good to represent modernity and also can be good for conservatism. So I put the setting in London, UK. And anyway,  I always love UK and always want to go there.

Yeah, while everybody tried to write something as realistic as they can, I tried to write something that I've never experienced at all in the setting that I've never been at all. Can you imagine how frustrated I was, I googled a lot. And these awful questions like "would this be rational? Would this be okay with the readers? Why does the story run that way?" kept popping up into my head while I was writing. But then I always had the answer. You know why? Because I was the author, I was the creator, it was my creation, I built the story myself. When you're a creator, you have this freedom of changing things, arranging things, you can always make something up so it can be what you want it to be. Wonderful, isn't it?

But still… I was about 15 or 16 when I wrote this novel and my writing was that bad. It was a mess, very awful.  That's why I never told anybody about that. I'll keep it until maybe someday, if I have the time, I rebuild it and print it for myself, for a memory. I'm that pathetic, I know.

But don't worry I'm still awesome :D