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My name is Meagan, but I’ve gone by Lusie for the past seven years – my teachers and the people at the college I’ll be attending next fall all know me as Lusie, and there is no record of a Meagan anywhere outside of my home and legal documents. I’ll be filing for a name change the afternoon of my 18th birthday, and I can’t wait!

I have a rough draft of a “short story” (HAHAHA!!!) that is going to be a novel – it’s unfinished, obviously, and at just over 20,000 words. I don’t have writers’ block, and my characters are very sure of who they are and where they’d like to go next, on through to just before the end.
My reason for not trying to finish, other than time, is a strange one – I’m terrified that people will read it, toss it aside, and say, “Eh, it’s good writing for a teenager, but it reads like a teenager wrote it.”

(I have several sections of it online – http://storywrite.com/list/681-He-Ping)

I made a t-shirt for International Free Hugs Day, and the second I walked into school some kid wanted a hug. Various people took me up on it throughout the day, but my favourite hug was walking on Bardstown Road (Louisville’s little faux-cultural centre) and getting a hug outside of a bong shop :)