Omnigirl: a serialized coming-of-age/scifi novel set in 2001

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Omnigirl is a novel I wrote back when I was fourteen about a girl who is learning to become everything she truly is.

I wrote it when I was feeling quite lonely, and I was wondering if I had room in my life to be truly who I wanted to be, what could that possibly be like and what kinds of friends would I have around me. So from there it just grew into this kind of coming-of-age/scifi novel.

Lately I've been slowly making light edits and posting chapters of it serially to my blog.

Here's the link to read it: The Omnigirl Collection

This story was created and completed between 2001-2003, and I love how in the second half of the story, it carries this unexpected combination of technology that was common at the time with a futuristic scifi setting. Sometimes while reading it, it feels like multiple time periods being brought together.

The weirdest thing about this story is the symbolism in it. The MC is mesmerized by a ring that features a blue-pearl like stone--which oddly calls to mind the "blue pearl" phenomenon that some people experience during meditation--and much of the story is about how she eventually obtains and keeps this ring, which is being held by a group of girls that are reminiscent of the sailor-moon guardians.

Also the MC's name is Lila, which means Divine Play, and she completely lives up to it, literally. In fact while editing this story, I decided to look up the name meanings of quite a few of the characters (I originally picked the names from a phone book), and I'm amazed at how many of the characters match closely with or at least carry the theme of the literal meaning of their names. Even the names of the settings have deep symbolic meaning.

At it's most basic, this story is about a girl who is meeting different parts of herself, and she's learning to integrate them into her own identity. I wrote the bulk of this novel during a spaced-out funk over a summer break, so maybe that's why it turned out this way?

Anyways, this is just a story that I'm slowly editing, posting, and analyzing as the mood hits me. I also appreciate how this story just doesn't take itself too seriously.