Shaboozey Wrote 300-Web page Teenage Romance Novel—Then Trashed It

Shaboozey as soon as set his sights on a distinct inventive endeavor, revealing that he started writing a romance novel as a youngster.

Throughout an interview with Cosmopolitan, the artist, now 29, mirrored on his less-discussed literary aspirations, recalling a time when writing felt simply as vital to him as music.

“I began writing a romance novel once I was round 18,” Shaboozey stated. “I’ve it on my telephone.”

The manuscript facilities round two characters, one an artwork thief concerned in a forbidden act and the opposite an artwork fanatic.

“It was about these two individuals who have been very nicely linked to one another and met later in life below the pretence of artwork,” he defined, including that the theme of the e-book delved into deeper emotional connections and complexities between his characters.

Nonetheless, regardless of writing almost 300 pages of the novel, Shaboozey admitted the mission fell to the wayside, largely as a result of important quantity of labor required to finish such a prolonged endeavor.

“I obtained, like, 300 pages in after which I left it alone,” he confessed. “I spotted it will take plenty of time to essentially end it out. Perhaps I obtained lazy. It felt like I wanted 400 extra pages to complete.”

Apparently, Shaboozey’s enterprise into romance writing got here with out having ever learn a romance e-book himself.

“I didn’t have an overview; I simply began writing,” he stated. “I’ve truly by no means learn a romance novel.”

Now, higher identified for his music within the Hip-Hop scene somewhat than his unfinished e-book, Shaboozey nonetheless displays on the expertise with curiosity.

Although his enterprise into novel writing by no means reached its conclusion, the method gave him perception into simply how troublesome storytelling could be.