Shannylee24

I finished my first draft of 77 chapters and 181k words of my debut novel. FINISHED the first draft! It has been 3.5 years since I started this journey, and I finally did it! I created an entire world, lore and several religions on top of different creatures, flora, humanoid species and races...I am beyond excited to finish the self-edit! I changed a lot from what is actually being posted on this site! I won't be updating it anymore here and instead will just update via post on my wall! (: I am so excited to move on to beta readers!

I have a handful of Beta Readers already, but I still need some more! I have a beta reader application available and ready to go and I estimate April for the actual reading to take place! If you are interested, message me or leave a comment below!

On top of that, I had art commissioned for one of my main characters! My story is told in split POV, one MMC and FMC! She will be posted below! ^_^ I have the MMC commissioned as well and have another week to go before he is finished! NO AI! I am beyond excited!

If you would like to follow my journey, follow my FB at Shantell Kreider (Shanny Lee), TikTok at Shannylee24, Instagram AND Threads at author_shannylee24 --I follow everyone back or try to!

I'm closing in on the last ten chapters of my first draft! On Inkitt, I have several chapters posted and unedited except what prowritingaid does for free, and cannot wait to do the self edit! Some thigns will be changing and other things will be cleaned up with plot!

This story is very important to me. It is something I have worked on and off for the last 3.5 years and the last couple months I have really taken off with it! I am hoping to have some commission art soon for my story with the two main characters whose POVs the story follows!

This is going to be a long first book! I have written 160k words for it already and I still have roughly ten chapters left to go! There are a couple of you who I have ranted to, boasted to, geeked out with for my story who have been there through the idea stage all the way through 'til now and I love every one of you!

Happy Near Year and keep on writing authors!  

Update: My story for the first draft is 2/3 done! Due to the holidays, travelling between different states in the US and a death within the family, writing has been on hiatus, but no longer!

I resumed writing and have currently written almost 14k words in three days (today still has many hours left and I plan on doing one more chapter!) and I cannot wait to do the self edit!

Currently, I am writing chapter 53, but as of on this, I believe about 16 chapters have been fully submitted! It isn't completely edited yet, as it is only the first draft, but I thank those who have recently added it to their lists! I will keep things posted here, although, my Instagram is a much better way to stay tuned with updates! Follow me on instagram at author_shannylee24 

Back at it! I have revised and changed much of what I posted two years ago of my story. In fact, I unsubmitted the old version and added a new version of my story!

Miracle of the Phoenix (MOTP) is book one of the trilogy and I am halfway finished with the first draft. I have already begun outlining the second book and plan to have the full first draft of MOTP finished by end of November! Art is being commissioned and once I hire an editor (Still debating the publishing route), I will hire a professional cover designer!

I am beyond ecstatic! If you are curious on my progress, follow me on @author_shannylee24 on Instagram! I am working on figuring an author newsletter and patreon!(: Leave as much constructive criticism, I love finding things and hearing things that will help my story be the best it can be! Be mindful, MOTP is being written still and has not gone through the self edit process and the professional edit, yet!

With that, enjoy your reading, readers!(: I plan on posting weekly, if not, more than once a week!

Hey, would you like to do a review swap? If yes, reply here.

Currently rewriting MOTP! The original is finally on pause since I strayed from what I wanted from plot/ character development. I have practiced more writing within this year and feel like the original is a bit mediocre written. I'm super excited to be continuing the series on a bit of a better schedule as I have already rewritten 10 chapters. When I finish the rewritten, I will place it on a scheduled format to submit intermittently. Thank you to those who have read, I appreciate it and with the great feedback! I can't wait for the rewritten to be on here, but I expect it will be awhile!

Thank you for adding Onyx: The Sovereign Slayer Chronicles to your reading list!

Hi everyone! It has been awhile since I have been hard core active on Inkitt again! I have been on it more recently these last two weeks! So, here is the thing... I am NOT looking for a review... I am looking for beta readers. My story, Miracle of the Phoenix, is currently on hold because of some writing errors and my plot isn't going as nice as I would like it. I will be rewriting it once I get some better feedback so that I can make it a much better experience for readers! If anyone is willing to help, I have 12 chapters available right now. This would include grammar, finding crutch words or phrases, dialogue tags, plot holes, etc. If you would like to review, I appreciate it, but I am also not looking for it so I would just take it as an extra kindness. Please let me know if you can help me out!

Finally got the next chapter out and finished! Half of it was written a few months ago and the other half tonight, so I hope it blended well! Let me know what you think?! This is my first draft of my story, but so far, I think I've got a good idea going! Slow, but sure! Just wait until I finish this and am in book two ^_^ Gonna be a huge twist and cliff hanger!

I personally wanted to thank everyone so far that has read/added my story! I haven't been very active on here the last two months, because of a huge PCS move across the states! We decided to drive so it was quite a toll, especially with our four pets in tow! I will be resuming writing here hopefully this month, if not, the next! Chaps 12&13 were already in the works before the move so, it shouldn't be too long!(: