I See You

It's me! It's me! Back here the next day!

I've had some writing breakthroughs this week (and the week's only 3 days old!) that I'm very excited about. I wrote a first draft for the childrens' book series I've been contemplating. I think it's crap, of course, and too short, but I'm going to keep working on it. I'd like to get 3 manuscripts ready to send to my short list of agents. Maybe I will actually finish something before December!

My college-aged YA idea is brewing around in my head, and I'm asking a lot of questions from my main character. Thus far, she's not really answering them or she just shrugs or sighs like what I'm asking is such a stupid question. You know how teenagers can be. I haven't attempted to write YA before so I'm really scared about finding the right voice. Plus, it's been a long time since I was 18 and I know that the main character and I don't have very much in common. We'll see how it goes.

And, as I was taking C to preschool, I wrote the opening paragraph for my NASCAR book...in my mind. I can remember the first couple of sentences; everything else has melded back into my brain mush. But that's okay -- I think it's a good first sentence/opening and as long as that's on paper, I'll just write what the muse tells me to.