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K.A. Coleman

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Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction

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I'm not really going to write a biography. Though I am supportive of the high schools and colleges I have attended, it's probably not actually the most interesting stuff about me. I'm going to do a list of five really random things instead for now.

1) I like making lists. It's weird, and I never actually scratch things off of the list.
2) I sing and dance in the car like a maniac.
3) For the first six years of my life, I truly believed a shark lived under my bed. I watched Jaws at too young of an age.
4) Without a doubt, I am a night person. I am enormously grumpy when first woken up in the morning.
5) When I was younger, I read almost every Nancy Drew book, both new and old. I had a notebook, and I would take notes to see if I could figure out ...more

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Average rating: 4.3 · 27 ratings · 9 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Living in the Aftermath (The Ties That Bind Us, #2) 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of Monsters and Meter it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Holding On and Letting Go by K. A. Coleman (2014-07-25) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Speak Now

To be honest, I don't know where to start except to acknowledge that I have not blogged in a really long time. Anyone who knows me knows that I frequently ask and answer my own questions, so here it goes.

1. Did I ever stop writing entirely?
Absolutely not. Some people need to visualize things. I need to write through things to make sense of them or at least attempt to make sense of things.

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“The thing with Rubik's cubes, sometimes you make them worse when you try to fix them. I didn't want to make her worse, and I also didn't know how to make her better.”
― Lucy A. Kelly, Holding On and Letting Go

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“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”
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