The most marvelous thing happened today.
As we navigated several hours of snowy roads, I pulled out my computer and opened my current WIP. I had put it on the back burner as I focused on revising a different project, but as I read through, I found that I was smiling. Oh, you delightful characters, what mess have you gotten yourself into this time? It was such a lovely feeling! Time after time I have put this piece away because something more pressing has come along, and yet I continually come back to it. There’s a spark here. I can’t tell you how excited I am to put aside all other distractions and focus on this WIP. I’m going to do just that, for it is now my scheduled writing time. Why, how professional! 😉
Also, thank you for your fantastic reading list suggestions! I’m also looking for more YA novels, so if anything spectacular comes to mind, please think of me. 🙂
Oh, and those purple heels? They are now mine, oh yes.
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Fantatic news (the heels and the WIP)! : )
Yea! I’m so excited! Come on, mouth! Enchant me a little more! 😉
So glad you’re back!!!
Isn’t it wonderful when characters feel like old friends?
Your Googling “lapis lazuli” makes me wonder if you’ve been reading Dan Simmons. He’s in love with the color.
Time after time I have put this piece away because something more pressing has come along, and yet I continually come back to it. There’s a spark here.
I know the exact feeling. Rarely have I permanently trunked a piece thinking, “This sucks and I know I’ll never do anything with it.” In almost every case, there was a reason I wanted to tell that particular story–a resonance–and if I can home in on what it was, it gets finished or rewritten. Eventually. 🙂
DO NOT MISS Peter Cameron’s ONE DAY THIS PAIN WILL BE USEFUL TO YOU. Beautiful, beautiful. Voice is spot on. Best YA I’ve read in a long, long time.
Natalie-I’m super excited about both! I’ll have to get a picture of the heels.
Nisa-What makes you think that I’m talking about Mouth? Okay, so I’m talking about Mouth. 😉
Aaron-My friend and I were just talking about this today! It’s an imaginary world with imaginary characters, but sometimes it feels more real than our own. It’s enchanting.
Don-How long does it usually take you? This particular novel is a year old, and I’ve never taken that long on one before!
fluffycat-Sounds fantastic! I’ll add it to the list. Thank you. 🙂
How long? I think the longest I’ve ever let a story languish untouched was about 6 months. Usually, something triggers my memory about a particular piece–a market opens up, or I read a story with the same theme. Pretty happenstance, really.
Now, I might put it the story back in the trunk if I can’t reconnect, but I like pulling them out just to see. I have this fantasy that the stuff I start has some kind of potential that I’m just not good enough as a writer to realize…yet.
I read a lot of YA so I can lend my suggestions!
The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins (
Unwind – Neal Shusterman (Completely engrossing and haunting, left me thinking about it a long time after I was done)
The Silver Chair – C.S. Lewis
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld – Patricia McKillip (just a fun fantasy read)
and not YA…
World War Z – Max Brooks (I know, I know, zombies don’t scare you, maybe they will after you read this)