Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to my blog! I wouldn't feel comfortable reading a blog without knowing much about the blogger, so I'm sure you wouldn't either. With that being said, here's some information about me such as who I am, my important relationships, and how I even became a writer! My name is Dakoda Lynne, and I'm twenty-one years old, which is absolutely crazy to me. I have been writing for ten years now, which is even crazier. I have two younger siblings and they're twins. I also have one dog named Nala, three cats whose names are Kaneki, Layla, and Mickey, along with three gerbils (Chip, Dale, and Hades), one rat (Templeton) and a hedgehog (Henderson). I reside in a smallish town in Kentucky, and have an apartment with my fiancé. My most important relationships include my best friend, my fiancé, my aunt, my uncles and my mom. They also just so happen to be the biggest supporters I have with my writing, even if I doubt myself. My mom used to tell me that one day, my name would be in light. It still has yet to happen, but I'd say finishing a novel and starting the publishing process is pretty damn close. My fiancé always tells me that I can do anything I want to do even if it seems unreachable to me, and my best friend always cheers me on, she fully believes in me and my writing to the fullest extent. I really am blessed to have all of the support I have within my life, because I know some don't have that support that I do. When I was younger, I loved reading. Growing up, my love for books only grew. But when I was eleven, I had finally read what was to be the last book in the Maximum Ride universe by James Patterson. I didn't like the way that he had ended it, and I wanted a different ending. So, like any eleven-year-old who wants things her way, I rewrote it. Was it by any means good? Of course not. I'm sure it sucked and I probably changed the characters completely. But, with James Patterson not writing the ending I wanted, a new passion found it's way into my heart- writing. It was the passion I never thought I wanted, but the passion I always needed to have.

I'll always be thankful to James Patterson for making an ending I hated. Without the ending the way he wrote it, I never would have started writing. And I'm thankful to my mom for always keeping tabs on James Patterson's book, keeping a mental note of the ones I have, and getting me any one that she sees in the stores she goes to.

Even though my mom has bought me tons of James Patterson novels over the years, I have to say the book I love the most that she found for me was Hawk. She had found the book at a flea market in Oregon, and grabbed it because it sounded like a series I had read, and because it was James Patterson. As she kept looking at it, and thinking about it, she called me and asked if James Patterson was going to write any more novels in the Maximum Ride series. When I told her no, and that Nevermore was the last one, especially because I haven't seen a new Maximum Ride novel in so many years, she pulled the book out and after reading it, all I could do was cry.

There was yet another Maximum Ride novel, and it was mine. You could just see how happy my mom was when she showed me the book. It was like she was glowing because she was giving me a piece I didn't know existed of me back that had started writing in the first place. She later got me the second novel to the Hawk series a few months later. Both of wish I loved, despite others saying they didn't like them. I absolutely recommend them. I hope you have fun while we go on the writing rollercoaster together as I flourish into the author I want to be. Who knows, maybe one day I can thank James Patterson in person for kickstarting my career without even knowing. Happy reading. Happy writing.