MelissaBaby
Wordy Bitch
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Queen of the Roller Derby
I spent a lot of time on this one. It's 52k words, but what slowed me down, besides having to go to work, was that it's my first long period piece, and I put a lot of research into trying to avoid anachronisms. That was time consuming, but this really was a lot of fun to write.
It starts when Kitty Boyd is eight years old and her father, returning home from World War Two, gives her a pair of roller skates for her birthday. Her home life isn't good and she doesn't have friends. Skating becomes her life. When she grows up and gets the opportunity to join a roller derby team, she fully realizes what had always made her so different, and that there are other girls like her...
I spent a lot of time on this one. It's 52k words, but what slowed me down, besides having to go to work, was that it's my first long period piece, and I put a lot of research into trying to avoid anachronisms. That was time consuming, but this really was a lot of fun to write.
It starts when Kitty Boyd is eight years old and her father, returning home from World War Two, gives her a pair of roller skates for her birthday. Her home life isn't good and she doesn't have friends. Skating becomes her life. When she grows up and gets the opportunity to join a roller derby team, she fully realizes what had always made her so different, and that there are other girls like her...