Welcome back to another season of My Writing Sucks! Join me as I read through Starchild, the first middle grade novel I ever wrote when I was seventeen (and took my writing very seriously). In Part One, we meet Ruby Carter, your average eleven-year-old with the vocabulary of an SAT prep book. Everything changes for Ruby when a new girl joins her class and announces in front of everyone that she is not from Earth. Despite judgment from her peers, Ruby befriends Fiora and quickly discovers that her claim might not be so far-fetched after all…