Isaiah Scheuer

Hey guys!

You might have guessed, because you're all a big bundle of geniuses, but my name is Isaiah Scheuer.  Most people call me Isaiah--a few close friends and family call me Isi.  I'm seventeen years old and I'm from Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.

I've been writing for a long time (as far as I'm concerned).  I started writing in fourth grade, working with a notebook on little stories that came into my head from everything that I read.  By the time I was in seventh grade I had bought myself a laptop--yes, I bought it off my mom but I still bought it, right?--and on a trip to Madison, I started writing in earnest.  At the time, I was inexperienced in my writing and pulled most of my ideas from my favorite stories: Lord of the Rings, Ranger's Apprentice, Redwall, The Shannara books, and Warriors by Erin Hunter, to name just a few.  I had no idea who I was as a writer or what it was that I was trying to write.  I slapped on a title of The Coming of Yervon, blew through a disgrace of a prologue, and kept on writing.  By my sophomore year of high school I had finished not only The Coming of Yervon, but also the other two books in what I was calling The Infallible Trilogy.  Three hundred thousand words in four years and I was feeling great.

After my father and a self-published author friend on the West Coast did some reading for me, I (with the help of these amazing people) came to the conclusion that my four years of work had done as much as an outline for me.  I had the bare bones of a story, but it needed more.  I needed a rewrite.  So, after a very intensive reworking, I developed a newer and better story, which I call The Weaver of Songs.

As an author, fantasy--most notably epic fantasy--is where I'm most comfortable, though I have branched out and dabbled in dystopian and sci-fi a couple of times.  I like to write characters that aren't heroes, but that instead grow into themselves, being made into heroes rather than being born or destined as them.