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My purpose with this blog is to interactively work through the process of writing my first young adult book, tentatively titled Perdition. The briefest way I could explain the general idea is that it's meant to be like Twilight but with a girl who's both less and more sure of herself than Bella, a ghost on a sinister mission, and a crazy extended family. Don't worry there will still be a love triangle. However, I certainly don't intend this to be a romance first. It's much more about coming-of-age, family, and loss. My plan is to work my way through the process, including research (such as reviews of other books I read for inspiration along the way), character sketches, pleas for help, and whatever else might crop up along the way. If you'd prefer just to read the book as it's developed, you can visit the secondary page. Here goes nothing...

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Book Progress and Shout-Outs

FYI:  In case you have started to read or wanted to read my book, I've been working madly at the suggestion of +Michelle Lowery Combs and +Terri Weaver to get rid of the prologue.  I've done that and I've also taken to heart Jeff Cohen's appropriate criticism that Persis wasn't behaving very much like a (mostly) confident young lady when she first met Luke.

Most importantly, I sucked it up and switched to writing on my massive laptop that has Word on it, so I've caught many, embarrassing grammar mistakes (although Flavia Bitussi and Matt Luo were already helping me out with that).  I wanted to fight the corporate power by using OpenOfficeWriter, but it just wasn't getting the job done.

^The world's largest laptop^
Long story short, besides wanting to thank these helpful people, I wanted to let you know that while I've left the chapters in the original blog postings unaltered, I have updated the full text on the "Perdition: The Book" page.  If you hadn't started or hadn't gotten far, you may want to read the new and improved version there. I hope y'all will continue to help me out--it's been invaluable thus far!
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