My WIP

I had intended on sharing more of my picture book experience with you, today, but I've been diverted--in a good way. Christine over on Christine's Journey had a great post on Monday. She was feeling under the weather--hope you feel better--so she decided to ask her followers about their WIPs.

I thought, "What better way for me to leap into sharing more of myself as a writer/mom/crazy lady with my peeps than this?"


So here goes. I've pasted her questions directly from her blog post.

Christine asked, "For your current work in progress..."

What inspired you to write it?

Ooh, there are so many elements that inspired me to write MARKED BEAUTY. I'll list them in phrases.

- my first attempt at writing a YA novel, TYMELESS, was so hideous. 

- a desire not to give up on Tymeless, but the brains to know I needed a fresh start.

- I'm a love sap. Period.

- everything about the paranormal excites me, and I wanted to prove that a story encompassing a paranormal idea could be humanized. I believe I've done that with MB. (Um...it's a good thing I didn't name it Beauty Marked. The acronym would be silly, not to mention embarrassing.)

What stage are you at (developing, research, outline, first draft, revisions, etc.)?

- she's off in the hands of two amazingly talented pubbed-up author friends who are both line-editing for me. 

- My query and first pages are posted over on my other home, YALitchat. So any yalitchatters here, I'd love it if you'd take a gander over there and take a peek at my work. You're opinion and advice is invaluable to me.

- I'm in synopsis hell. 'Nuf said.

How long have you been working on it?

- hum...wrote first draft in 5 months, put it away and started two other projects. (You can see them in my sidebar.)

- revised for about three months, and then I made that decision to convert the ms from 3rd to 1st POV, remember. That took me three weeks. I spent the last two weeks combing-through the ms.

- I guess that would be a total of around 9ish months.

Any word counts you would like to share?

- sure, 73,000

Are you having fun with it?

- a blast!! My 11-yr-old daughter (soon to be 12 on the 25th) is my biggest advocate. She's at that age where the idea of love and prince charming has started to grab her. She's enthralled with my male lead. Sharing with her has really brought us closer.

Anything else you would like to add?

- next week, I'll be taking a week-long hiatus from writing and probably blogging. I'll be concentrating on reading two novels for blog tours I'm involved in, beta reading for two awesome authors who I'm learning a ton from, and critiquing over on YAlitchat. I'll also be hammering out two solid outlines for the works in my sidebar.

So Alleywalkers, want to share your WIP with me?? I'd love to hear where you are.

SPLAT: I posted some cool links over on Oasis for YA, yesterday.