Books, books and more books...

It's been well over a week since my last blog post and I apologize for being a neglectful blogger. Other duties having been calling lately - namely work, B who is now suffering through yet another cold, finishing reading the Twilight saga before our new book club kicks off (more on that later) and lastly finding a few moments here and there to write my latest novel.

My previous little writing "experiment" (I'll call it that cause let's face it, I avoided writing classes like the plague when I was in school) is in the safe and very competent hands of editor sj (who DID take all those writing classes that I worked so hard to avoid) and she's probably running out of red ink by now. That little experiment was my attempt at creating a cute children's story for B. It all started with an idea that kept growing in my head and every night I would tell B a little more of the story. Then I got the brilliant idea that I should just write it down so I wouldn't forget any of the details and Voila! "The Tree House" was born. We'll see what happens with it. In any event B totally got absorbed in it and loved hearing what would happen next. If that's as far as it goes I'm happy with it.

As for my latest writing endeavor, it is not a children's story. And it's going to be way longer than "The Tree House". I'm already at 22,000 words and I'm only about a third of the way through. The Tree House was only 9000 or so words. I'm thinking sj might demand a hefty paycheck from me if I ask her to review this one. Thankfully I'm still months away from finishing it so we have some time to negotiate something... And I do not have a title for it yet, nor will I give away too many details here because the plot is still unfolding in my head. So stay tuned...

Now in addition to my own reading list that I having been plowing through (in an attempt to read more to better my writing skills), several friends and I have recently formed a little book club of sorts. It involves reading a book for which a movie has been made, then getting together and having a fun girl's night while watching the movie. And since I'm all up for getting together with these gals, this creates the perfect reason to do it more often. We have already a few books picked out - The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd and Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson. I'm looking forward to delving into those soon.

Random Factoid - Did you know that Buckingham Palace has more than 600 rooms?! Yeah, glad I'm not the one cleaning it...