It’s easy to feel excited for a shiny new concept when you first start drafting, but keeping that momentum going for thirty days is much harder. “The most challenging part about NaNoWriMo, at least for me, is finding the motivation to keep writing throughout the entire month. This sort of intense undertaking of course comes with difficulty. Wlosok was introduced to this annual event through her high school English teacher in her freshman year, and she’s continued to participate every year ever since. This novel began as a part of the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)-this challenge consists of writing 50,000 words within the month of November. In the spring semester of my freshman year…I took ENGL 117: Mystery Fiction with Professor Henry Veggian, where we studied several influential mystery fiction writers-Poe, Doyle, Mosley, Christie, and Pynchon among them-which made me appreciate mystery novels and their foundational role in shaping thrillers, which are what I write.”
“I think every class at UNC has shaped me in some way. While her writing style has been influenced and formed through media outside of coursework, she has been impacted by many of her classes. Wlosok, a sophomore, is a prospective English and business administration double major. Wlosok adds, “It’s full of mystery, probably more than a normal amount of Scooby-Doo references, and a lot of LGBTQ+ representation.”
Wlosok’s upcoming novel, How to Find a Missing Girl, is a sapphic YA thriller that follows amateur teenage detective Iris Blackthorn as she investigates the disappearance of her cheerleader ex-girlfriend-who also happens to be the creator of a notorious local true-crime podcast about Iris’s missing older sister. It was honestly one of the best days of my life.” “I couldn’t believe I was actually going to be a published author, and I also couldn’t believe I was starting my career with a Big Five publisher while I was still a freshman in college.
The day Victoria Wlosok received the call from her agent that she had gotten a two-book deal with Little, Brown, she was in shock.
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