So apparently you’re supposed to actually post on your blog every now and then.
I’ve finally finished (almost) working on my next middle-grade novel, which has the working title Screaming at the Ump. Goodness. I can’t tell you how good that feels. I’m now in a surprising and content little pocket of time, waiting to hear back from the brilliant writer-friends who are reading my manuscript.
In other words, there’s absolutely nothing I ought to be working on right now.
Of course, you’re never really done, right? Those readers will pick up on myriad oversights, writer-tics, if not downright big-old hard-to-solve problems. And then I’ll have to get right back to it. But not now! Shhh! Don’t even mention that! Right now I’m singing and I can’t hear you. Fa la la la la…..
For years, the idea of getting through another novel, start to finish, was hanging over me. It’s a heavy weight. And now it’s on vacation. Which means that in some ways, so am I!
Fa la la la la….
There are exciting projects ahead—an attempt to write a chapter book with a close friend and brilliant writer, developing the ideas generated during this and last year’s PiBoIdMo. I’m even excited about the next novel I want to write, which I started, just so I could take the abstract albeit giant and potentially-debilitating-if-you-think-about-it-too-much-without-actually-doing-it step from idea to actual word document.
But with a step like that comes the feeling that this little vacation I’m enjoying is about to come to an end. I think I shall step ever so slowly…at least until January.
Enjoy a merry December, all.
Video warning: this really doesn’t start until a minute and a half in. And the quality is bad. But once it starts…1978 Bruce Springsteen! Fake snow! Some beautiful vocals near the end. (See above: I have time for this now.)
Congrats on your finished project! As I sludge through the holidays toward a March deadline, I envy every one of your fa la las! But I’m happy for you and I might just have to post fa la la over my computer to remind me that when it’s done, I can take a vacation too. Enjoy!
Congratulations on finishing your novel. And mega congratulations on making the NY Times 2012 list of notable children’s books. I’ve really enjoyed reading and following your blog.
Congratulations Audrey. Enjoy every minute of your pretend vacation:)
Love the working title! I hope you keep it.
I’m still rallying for another Buffalo book someday soon. 🙂