You're listening to the A Beautiful Mess Podcast and I have some big news.

I finished the first draft of my book and I mailed Elsie a copy. It was both thrilling and pretty much terrifying.

So today's episode is all about the book I wrote and questions that we've heard listeners

ask about the process.

Woe!

Okay, so Emma finished a quarantine novel.

So, okay, Emma, has it always been your dream your whole life to write a book, to write a novel?

No, I've had a lot of dreams over my whole life

wanted to do this when I was a kid but I'm pretty sure as a kid I wanted to be either a

mermaid or a lawyer so I don't feel like I've really been on track for

anything not a lifelong dream okay so when did you first I've really been on track for anything.

Not a lifelong dream.

Okay, so when did you first know you wanted to write a novel?

I just, I've always loved reading, so I struggled with reading as a kid, like in early elementary.

And I had to get a lot of extra help from my teachers, especially my first grade teacher, Mrs. Wildermouth.

Shout out to all the great teachers out there, please.

So, yeah, once I finally felt like I could read,

I remember the first book I ever read quickly.

It was the very first Harry Potter, the

sorcerer stone, or the philosopher's stone.

So what grade were you in?

It was the summer between sixth and seventh grade. So I had read books before that like I have other

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