About

Short Version:

I’m Jacob. I like to read. I’m writing my first book. I hope you enjoy my posts on writing, reading, and random nonsense.

Long Version:

See Jacob Write is a mission.

Enrolled in the Commonwealth Governor’s School of Virginia, one of my required classes is Culminating. Culminating is a project that “enables students to thoroughly explore a topic of personal interest.” For the first year of Culminating (freshman year), you choose a topic and a question and begin research and analyzing. The following year (sophomore year), you continue with the last year’s research to create a product.

For my Culminating project, I have decided to write a book. Always an avid reader, I’ve dabbled in writing once or twice. But I never really knew what I was doing. And I’ve always been a little wary of writing book. Wary, as in: A BOOK? A BOOK! OH MY GOSH, THAT’S 300+ PAGES OF MY OWN WORDS. AND IT SHOULD BE WRITTEN WITHIN A SPECIFIC AMOUNT OF TIME. AND IT HAS TO SOUND GOOD . . . I’M GOING TO COWER OVER THERE BEHIND THAT BIG ROCK NOW!

But. I threw down my cowardice. I’ve taken the first step toward writing my first novel. I’ve done my first year research on writing a young adult historical novel. And now I’m starting my second year—the actual writing of the book.

I’m writing a young adult historical bildungsroman that takes place in 1960s America. I would like to tell the tale of two twelve-going-on-thirteen year olds with alternating chapters between a boy and a girl.

From there, the only place left to go is up. I have ideas for the events of my book, but, for now, I think I’ll leave them unsaid.

I hope you continue to read See Jacob Write because 1) you will learn new details about my first book, 2) you will receive some fairly awesome book reviews, and 3) you will support me, a beginning author.

So See Jacob Write is a mission for me. A mission for me to fully appreciate the English language through reading, writing, and sharing.

Thanks,
Jacob Hopkins