The Quad Crew

Riordan, Rick. Percy Jackson, The Heroes of Olympus, The Trials of Apollo. Miramax Books Puffin Books, Disney-Hyperion, 28 June 2005 (Percy Jackson and the Lighting Theif)-October 6, 2020 (The Tower of Nerp).  In page 31 I referenced a Tartarus scene in The Heroes of Olympus. 

I reference Mario, Minecraft. and Tetris.

Thanks to some websites including Google, Quora, Backpacker, Wiki, Libanswers, Purdue Writing Lab, Stack Exchange,  msn, Animals.mom, HowStuffWorks, garden.eco, gardenguides, and blogs.loc for helping me a lot with questions that I had about things. These things range from survival tips and nature facts all the way to proper citation and formatting.

Another thanks to my frienditors who have caught, (and are still catching) like, [insert some big number] of mistakes in spelling and stuff like word choice that would have made this book really, really, really... bad. (I'm too lazy to type the remaining few (thousand) 'really's)😁.  Vesper and Arham, thanks.

Thanks as well to Maseo, a good friend of mine since 2nd grade,  Charlie, a friend since 5th grade, and Evan (again, a friend since 4th grade) who have been reading my book and give me their thoughts on it so that I can make it better, and to motivate me to keep writing.

Finally, thanks to my parents for sparing me time to write the book. 

P.S. Hello to all of the readers! It's so cool to see someone reading my book while I'm editing it, and it lets me know that my work is being seen (and maybe enjoyed, but maybe that's too much to hope for) by other people. 

P.P.S I'm so happy that I got to write this book! I feel like I've learned a lot about other things like science and that writing this had also taught me a lot about, well, writing! (No, I will not say that I've learned a lot about myself because that's not true, plus it's too cliche.) But, at the risk of sounding cliche, I will say that I have learned something about myself. I learned how much I love literature. 

STORY TIME!!!

I've always loved reading books, and at one point I mowed through maybe 5-6 1.5 to 3-inch books a week. Then I decided to start actually writing a book of my own. Yes, I'd written a few books before this, but they've always been unfinished, collaborated a LOT, or just not good. After doing a bit of planning and research, I opened a new Google Document... And immediately had writers' block. Yes, I planned from start to finish exactly what would happen. Obviously, those plans inevitably changed, but that's another story. Yes, I knew how it would begin, at least, in a broad sense. And yes, I felt like I should have been able to at least write something. But I couldn't. And then I remembered a saying. Can I just write one good sentence? This. saying. changed. everything. I was finally able to start. And my first sentence obviously isn't ground-breaking, or revolutionary. Far from it. But it's a sentence that I'm happy I wrote because it's exactly what I believe. I decided to start with something me-based. And relatable. Something that I'd wanted to communicate for a long time. So that's exactly what I wrote. From there the sentences and ideas flowed out easily, and I had the comfort of knowing that I'd started the story exactly how I wanted to.

And oh? Another thanks? Yes. I want to thank Nik from Write Like a Pro. He probably doesn't know this is here. He doesn't know I exist, probably. But he helped A LOT. It started when I read one of his articles on Medium, I figured, "Hey, this is pretty cool." He had a free subscription, where every once in a while he would send a few writing tips to my inbox. Yep, there was a paid course. With a discount. Did I buy it? No. But the free tidbits of information that I got (and am still getting) were things that I would be willing to pay for, or travel to a seminar for. That saying from the previous paragraph? Yep, I got that from one of his infomails. It's originally from F. Scott Fitzgerald, but I would never have heard of it if it wasn't for one of Nik's emails. I know this is a long acknowledgement, but Nik, if you're reading this, just know that the writing advice is awesome, and I totally suggest other people subscribe to your emails as well. https://writelikeapro.ck.page/ you can get the free email subscription there.