My first book is out!
I'm Dia, and I'm honestly so excited to be writing this right now! Ever since I was little, I've always been reading or writing something, and now, having my first book published feels incredibly strange! My younger self would be so proud of me, but right now, with all the stress of the process still hanging over me, I’ve realized I’m not quite as happy as I imagined I would be... "Can Artificial Butterflies Reach the Sky?" is a story that has been in my mind for a long time. The characters changed, the ending changed, the theme and message changed too, but eventually my little creation became something that could finally be published. This story means so much to me, which made writing it even more stressful. I’ve been so attached to it for so long that I was terrified of not being able to express it the way it deserved. There were so many scenes I deleted or rewrote. I kept wondering how much I should explain, what I should focus on, how I could convey my charac...