So I have already not kept my promise. It’s been many days since my last post. I could give a myriad of excuses but the reality is I just didn’t get it done. I have been doing a bit of reading. I just finished up Gena Showalter’s, Into the Dark. Which is actually 3 books in one. Me likey a lot! I could zip though the stories and get my fix for the series’ that I have been craving more of. Loved finding out how LOTU got started with the story of Greyon and Kadence. But OMG make me cry Gena!!!! Loved it. Then of course there was a trip back to Atlantis which I have been aching for…..finally getting to see what becomes of Nola and Zane. I think these two walked away with my heart! Then you take us on side trip with a couple of God’s who get soooo naughty!!! Yummy!
However my favorite part of the book was when you got done with those three wonderful stories Gena had a special surprise for her readers. It was like I had died and gone to heaven. There in my hands were the answers to the problems plaguing me! All I had to do was read a conversation between two of my favorite authors Kresley Cole and Gena Showalter. Here I am throwing out pages and pages of the book I am desperately trying to write because it’s just not right. Sweet to find out that is probably completely normal in this process. I also love that I am not only person on the planet with a host of people living in her head! Who yell at me, LOL!
Now I have come to the realization that I cannot fight this book like I have been. I can’t make it fit a preconceived mold that I decided upon. I was thinking that I wanted to make this novel a young adult genre, and thought at first that my character was taking me there but as I start to write things go from PG-13 to R rather quickly in my mind. Then I start to go on a tangent in my own brain about just what defines the difference of PG-13 vs R these days. I mean today’s teenagers are certainly more versed than I was at their age and damn I thought I knew a lot! The words certainly seem to be more acceptable especially in teen use and in print. I hear and read things today that I would never have found in the things I was reading in high school.
That of course sends me into the panic of dialogue. If I write for a younger audience how do I make my characters’ sound young and fresh, without *sigh* using slang from my own youth that is *groan* out dated. (Yes I am just recently realizing that I am fast approaching middle aged. I console myself with joy of taunting those I love that are already there with the fact that they ARE there. I know that Karma’s a bitch though and she will get me back, I have younger friends and my turn is coming, but I’ll have fun for a couple of years yet!) Okay back on track now Ms. Laney, no wonder we can’t get this book written!
So I bought the Grammer for Dummies workbook, I desperately need to brush up on my basics which I am sure is quite evident in this blog. I know my demons they are especially fragments and run-ons. Plus brushing up on the rest with just make me a better writer overall. Just because the creative part of the process comes fairly easily for me because of the host of ideas that seem to live inside my brain, as well as the fact that I have the weirdest and freakiest dreams, and see the world from a point of view that leaves many people scratching their heads may help with that a bit. However, that doesn’t mean that the technical side of writing flows as easily from my fingertips especially not all these years later after school. And well let’s face it I have been working on my ABC’s, colors, shapes, and teaching my two children the very building blocks to learning, which makes my brain about the state of Mush. I can sing along to almost every Disney preschool show, the Sprout channel, and a variety of other childhood favorites. Thankfully I was able to keep a few of those that make me shudder out of my home. Such as Sponge Bob and the Teletubbies…..unfortunately Barney did make it in. That damn purple Dinosaur has a way of drawing you in and suddenly your tapping your toes to the music……uh I mean wishing for the show to end. Anyway there I go off topic AGAIN. My sweet hubby would point out that it’s just my beautiful ADHD nature rearing it’s lovely head.
So where were we………….(Yeah I did have to scroll up to see)……. oh yeah the workbook. So I think my goal will be an assignment for myself. To read and complete the exercises for chapter 1 of the workbook, and……sorry got side tracked again. Hubby needed me to tell him which of my beloved books to donate and which to keep. I would love to keep every book I read but let’s face it my house simply isn’t big enough right now. So one I read them I pass them on for other’s to fall in love with. So my homework assignment for tomorrow, no really I will try to actually accomplish this! Chapter 1 and the exercises that go with it, I believe it’s verbs but it’s been a while since I looked at it. I know I know….bad Lainey. Ok time for me to quit blathering I need to go color with my daughter, yes I love to color. I even have my own crayons….what you gonna laugh at me.
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