At 1:30 AM, tonight, I stopped writing (by which I mean ran out of gas rather than finished) on page 223 of my Young Adult novel. It's my first book-length project and I am blowing my own mind by going and going and going. And I think it's good which, for those of you that know me, is not something I often say about my own work. About 50 more pages to go till I write "The End." And then the slog of rewriting begins.
All I can say is that if the publisher that's putting out my children's book also agrees to publish this one, I will have acheived Nirvana and will be transcendently happy for the rest of my life, or for two weeks, whichever comes first, and I will blog to you from Heaven about the joy of bounding from cloud to cloud in the always shining sunlight of my life. (And then the teens will do something REALLY annoying and I'll have to come down and do some bitching and smiting.)
So yippee, yippee, yippeee for me and wish me luck for the rest of the way.
2 comments:
Dear Elizabeth, Congratulations!!!! Applause, applause, applause, throwing kisses and flowers...
I can't wait for more blogs from heaven, over the stove, doing laundry, blinking at breakfast, fretting by the porch light, serving ice cream, climbing stairs, driving and thinking and writing and wondering and waiting and laughing. I peek at words from your heaven, making art, banging and tapping and deleting and control c and v , talking on the cell phone, charging the cell phone, flossing your teeth, hugging your babies, loving your Kirk, yelling and stomping like Rumplestiltskin... making us all laugh and want to be with you. You done us proud. I am so happy to get a peek and a piece of your heaven. XXXOOO
What wonderful news! Finishing something like that is so, and I hate this word, but sometimes you *have* to use it, empowering!
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