This story that I've been writing has been in the works since about 9th grade. I saw a news story on my local channel for a virus that can mess with the skin cells and make your skin fall off. I started to think "hey if this became a thing and only a small percent of the world didn't have it.... what would happen" and that is were Illness came from.
I still only have a few chapters of it and now rewriting my plan for what will happen. I've changed the main character so much I have forgotten who she was in the beginning. I know that I was originally going to have everyone have tech names like "digit" and stuff but thought it would be too childish. So I moved towards original English and Welsh names. Some of the names are also Germanic since some of the towns are German.
I will say that I have put this book on the back burner for a long time. I tried to tell people about it but no one wanted to hear what it was about. My mother would just nod her head every time I mentioned it. Now that I'm in college and an English major, I figured "why not". One of my classes this semester is having us write a first page of a YA novel as the final paper. I decided to kick start Illness as my book of choice. Most of the plot is written and I feel that it would be an interesting book to read (of course).
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