Writing again

Ok, so I've always wanted to be an author.  Ever since I was little I was making up stories.  I remember having my mom write them down for me.  When I got a little older I started writing them down myself and illustrating them.  I decided from a young age that I would be a children's author and illustrator.  That dream has changed over the years but I still hope I will do lots of creative writing when I'm older.  Anyway, I realised that I am not currently doing a ton of creative writing except for in school which is almost over so I started writing a novel.  Wether or not I'll get anywhere close to finishing it I'm not sure but at least I made a start.  I used to write a lot when I was younger.  I still have a notebook with a book  I started writing when I was about nine or ten that is probably supposed to be a third of the way finished.  It has a considerable amount of pages in it and I did stick to writing in it for a long time and poured a lot of effort into it.  It's too bad I stopped.  It's really funny looking back and reading over it.  I loved Narnia at the time so the book is about 4 children who discover a new world in the same place a boy disappeared 100 years before.  My new project is about a girl who loves to act and gets accepted into a top acting school.  I think she will become conflicted later on in the book about following another path.  I'm not sure yet though.  It's fun just coming up with ideas and jotting them down.  I'll make sure to keep you posted if the book amounts to anything.