FAQs

Here are a list of questions I get asked a whole lot. Feel free to comment with more questions. 

Q: What is your book going to be called? 

A: The Unborn and the Uninformed. Snazzy, huh? 

Q: What first inspired you to write a book?

A: February of my freshman year of highschool I was assigned a 9 page research paper. While we could choose the topic ourselves, I am quite indecisive, so when my teacher suggested Margaret Sanger I went with it. I soon learned that she was the founder of Planned Parenthood which is the largest abortion provider in the world. The more I researched about Planned Parenthood the more I found myself researching abortion. After a few months of it lingering in the back of my mind, I asked my teach in August what I could do to stop it. She told me probably the last thing I wanted to hear, to write a book, but I knew that was right. I prayed about it for a long time and couldn't get the idea out of my head, so here I am! 

Q: How long will it be? 

A: 40,000 words. Give or take a lot. Right now it’s looking like 9 chapters, between 3,000 and 5,000 words each, which is approximately 15-20 pages each. That means the book could run between 150-300 pages. But all of that depends on font, font size, page size, publishing company, how editing goes, ect. I hope that somehow narrows it down for you :)

Q: Are you going to get it published? 

A: I sure hope so! 

Q: How will that work? 

A: Ideally, I’ll find an agent, who will then find me a publisher. But that’s a very long and difficult process. If it doesn’t work out I’ll consider self publishing, which is also a lot of work and risky. Either way, it's all in God's hands. 

Q: When will you be done? 

A: Once I finish drafting and editing my manuscript and get it as good as it can be, then I'll begin contacting agents. That means I write letters to agents trying to convince them that I'm worth all of their time and thoughts and money and soul so that they'll read my book. Then if they like it we'll edit it again, then the agent will begin looking for a publishing company. Once the publisher is established, I still have to work with the editor, copy editor, design team, ect. That means a reeeally long time. My goal at this point, which isn't a strict goal, is to be done with my manuscript by the time I start college in fall 2012, which means I might be published by the time I graduate college in 2016. Hold your hats, people, it's a long process. 

Q: What chapter are you on? 

A: All of them, actually. That's a trick question. For example, chapter one is on draft 8, while chapter 9 isn't researched or outlined yet. I'm researching and outlining and draft chapters eight and nine while editing and rewriting chapters one through seven. 

Q: How far are you?

A: According to Scrivener (the program I'm writing on, look it up, it's the best) on Feb 17, 2012, I have 34,943 words, which is about 136 pages. However, can think of passages that I need to cut and other passages that I need to add. A lot of changes need to happen, and in one day that number can change by a few thousand words. So really, that's another trick question.

Q: What’s the significance behind “twopointfive”?

A: 2.5 billion lives have been lost to abortion. That was the statistic that first hit me and has stuck with me the most. Long story short, when I sat down and tried writing for the first time, I named the document “2.5,” and the name just stuck. I still probably have dozens of documents with 2.5 in the title. When I did surveys a few years ago the name 2.5 made sense to me, but probably not anybody else. My book isn't going to be called 2.5, but it's still my favorite number. 

Q: What school do you go to?


A. I don't want to answer that question.

Q: But I thought you were homeschooled? 


A: Fine. Yes I am homeschooled, but I go to a school. It's like a school for homeschoolers. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I go to school, have classes, be taught by teachers, interact with fellow students (because people are often concerned about homeschoolers' social life), turn in homework, be assigned papers, you know, schooly stuff. Then on Fridays and Saturdays and Sundays and a lot on Mondays and Wednesdays I do homework and read books and textbooks and do homeschooly things, sometimes in my pajamas, and most of the time on my bedroom floor. But to the sake of brevity, I go to a school for homeschoolers.