At the Pinnacle: A Fast Track Story By S.J. Portalatin (Part 1)

At the Pinnacle: A Fast Track Story By S.J. Portalatin

Young Adult Sports Romance/Contemporary Romance

Preface

Okay, I know this part of the story (or manuscript, hello beta readers!) will be ignored and you get to see the story of "At the Pinnacle" in some Reddit Discussion or a wiki page. But I really want to tell my story of how I achieved my greatest milestone in my twelve-year writing journey, so if you're here right now, thank you for putting some time into reading this! Here's the short story of my life and how I got to write this thing.

I daydreamed (or vividly imagined scenes) a lot when I was a kid. It was hard for me to sleep at the time because of that and while I was a smart student at school, I sometimes space out because of those scenes I imagined. It wasn't until I was about ten or eleven when someone asked me about Wattpad which was all the rage at the time, and my entire writing journey came around when they asked me if I could write.

I wrote my first fanfic (and practically story) in my notebook and my friend loved what I was doing. I kept writing in my notebook and I found that it made me stop vividly imagining scenes so much but still made me enjoy it all the same. So yeah, that's how I became a writer.

But jump cut to college, and I stopped writing full stories. I did write some short stories that my friends seemed to love but at some point, I literally ran out of ideas to write. I didn't quite enjoy my course but I can't tell my parents because my dad wanted me to take up law and talked so highly of the stuff I'm taking at the time. I always wanted to write anything that I find interesting but I've got no inspiration or motivation to write. Then I had about a month of sem break and I was getting bored, so I was just surfing on Youtube until the website recommended a song titled "i think about you not thinking about me" by far.

I cried. I was moved. But something came to my head. I also became a full Formula One fan and Heated Rivalry was becoming popular where I am, so I was like "Wait, I think I could write sports romance about F1! That stuff's popular."

So yeah, here I am, putting together this entire book about an immigrant girl finding a friend with someone who eventually becomes her senior teammate in a Formula One season.

There we go. Don't worry too much about the all caps, because I'm not mad about it but I just want to make sure no one sues me for putting them in a book because I'm really broke. But yeah, enjoy the story! I would love to see any and all discussions or interactions about this story I've made because I'm proud of the effort I made throughout this story!