Sarah Wilkens

Hi! Thank you so much for taking the time to read my blog. This first series will follow my journey as an aspiring author. Let me tell you, it has been a wild ride. Whilst on this journey I’ve really learned a lot about myself, not just as an author, but personally as well.

To be honest, I never really considered becoming an author. I’ve always had a knack for storytelling, but it was never a path that I considered. Until recently. I began my career as an early childhood educator. I love teaching, especially younger kids. Growing up I hated school, and kids shouldn’t hate school. I think school and learning should be an adventure, full of fun and excitement. Things were really looking up for me in my teaching career, and I really thought I had found a home. Then my first seizure hit. There were more to follow that one. Let me tell you, it was scary. I was aware of everything that was going on, I could feel my body shaking, and I couldn’t make it stop. I have children of my own, and seeing how they reacted to my seizures made me decide that I couldn’t teach. It wasn’t that the seizures preclude me from that job, but after seeing how it affected my own children, I began wondering how the kids in my classroom would react if I had a seizure, and I decided I couldn’t put a child through that.

After that I began thinking about what I was going to do, and that is when I remembered Rantëa. I pulled all of my notes out, and began really thinking about Rantëa, and the story I wanted to craft. Rantëa began life as a really vivid dream that I’d had. It was so captivating, and the imagery was so clear that I had to write it down. As I was writing, the entire history of this planet began taking shape. I have a whole history of the planet, who lived there and what happened to them. Writing Rantëa is what gave me the push to go back to school. This time for a bachelor’s degree in creative writing…. To be continued next week.

  What is the most vivid dream you can remember?