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Show Ellis publishes her first story Very few amateur writers have their first story submitted accepted for publication in a national magazine. maga-zine. Stephanie Ellis, a sophomore student at Viewmont High School, did. And she is still recovering from the shock. "I still can't believe it she says. 'After waiting for more than two months for a response, I just gave up hope.' Stephanie had watched the mailbox daily, waiting for a response even a rejection. But that day never came. "Then one day my creative writing teacher laid the Senior High Edition of 'High School Writer' on my desk and told me to look inside. My heart rate accelerated and my hands shook as I opened the magazine. maga-zine. It was one of the most thrilling r- .. i' r tt in magazine writing until last year. Before that, most of her writing revolved around short stories and poems. Her published story, "All in a Surgeon's Hands," required about two weeks to write in the evenings even-ings sandwiched in between homework and social activities, Stephanie explained. Her next story, "The Eyes of the Beholder," will be about 5,000 words long and is taking much longer to compose. ' ' I barely finished the rough draft," she said. "I still have a lot of work to do on it, but I'm hopeful that it, too, will find its way into print" Stephanie admitted that there was no financial benefits from her first publication, but she doesn't seem to mind. "I love to write and maybe someday I will get paid for my work," she said with her fingers crossed. Her newest story, also fiction, relates the experiences of a female photographer named Jessie Youngblood, who meets a guy named Chad. The story doesn't in- volve romance, as you might expect, ex-pect, but instead telb of the consequences conse-quences of Jessie's voyage after learning that her film of pictures taken earlier reveal a murder taking place aboard ship. "I won't tell you how it ends," she said, "but it is quite intriguing. You'll have to read about it when it's published." Hopefully, it will be published and many readers will be able to enjoy en-joy the efforts of this 16-year-old sophomore student from Viewmont High. experiences of my life." There on page 3 and continuing continu-ing on page 4 was Stephanie's story, every word of it, more than 2,500 words long. Nothing was changed. The story revolves around a fictional fic-tional doctor and his trials and tribulations of dealing with staff members in an everyday battle between be-tween life and death. The doctor is portrayed as a well-educated, very talented physician and features a very descriptive portrayal of his efforts to revive a patient who has suffered a cardiac arrest. "I guess I was writing my feelings feel-ings of being a doctor," said Stephanie, 'because I have grown up with a special interest in med-lane. med-lane. Stephanie began writing fiction and short stories in the seventh grade but didn't get really interested bv 1 -' - . . LLr v bbi bH LLT bLb bbh bbT BBb bbi Lb 1 bbbWu.bb. . . j y f L j i 1 b j j bbBjXbTJW-' ' ifj -pLfajj mmmgmmmmmMi Stephanie Ellis proudly shows off the national magazine "High School Writer." Her article "All in a Surgeon's Hands" required two weeks to write and she had her first story printed in her first attempt. |
