First Draft

This is all I have of my first draft of "Lexi and the Enchanted Map" (yes, the title changed slightly) so far. Here it is:

If you were to peek in on Lexi Miles’ life, it would seem quite ordinary. She lived in an ordinary apartment with her mother, went to an ordinary school, ate ordinary food, and slept in an ordinary bed. But if you were to peek inside Lexi’s mind, you’d see something quite amazing. Lexi had a gift, you see. Something called imagination. Imagination is an asset all children possess , but not all know how to use properly.

The secret to a good imagination is to see no boundaries. Lexi could look at an empty room and see a dungeon, or an underwater cave. She could gaze upon a dull back yard and see a rain forest, or a castle courtyard. She could sit in a cardboard box and let it take her to outer space. There were no limits to pretending for the bright-eyed girl.

Such a gift made for hours of personal entertainment, but at the end of the day, Lexi found herself longing for more, for something real. She wanted to enter a jungle like the one in her head and be able to take something tangible back from it. She wanted to bring her mother a rose from the hidden garden only she could see. She wanted to take a picture of the ancient castle her mind had placed in the schoolyard among the jungle gyms and merry-go-rounds. But none of that could happen, such a thing was impossible, so she did her best to let it go and savor the moments in which she alone could live in an imaginary wonderland.