Adventures in writing...

Yes I stole that title from the famed 80s movie Adventures in Babysitting. That movie was my main inspiration for the little amount of babysitting I did back in the day. I dreamed I was the impeccable Chris Parker. Always ready to take on whatever came her way to save the kids from dangerous criminals. She became a role model for every babysitting teen out there. Yeah, well I never had to save any kids from the rooftop of a Chicago office building. Or fight off an angry mob of car part smugglers because they were after the kid who stuffed a Playboy mag in his backpack. Nor did I ever have to deal with a tow truck driver who had a hook for a hand. But let me tell you - I watched that movie so much I was prepared!!

But even still Elisabeth Shue is cool in her own right. Out of all of the actors in that movie, I think Bradley Whitford (Chris' cheating boyfriend Mike who gets caught in the restaurant with that trampy woman) remains the least changed. I recently saw him in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and I swear it's like he walked off the set of Adventures and right into Sisterhood. He looks exactly the same!! And have you seen Vincent D'Onofrio (Dawson/Thor) lately? Oh my how some people change over time... But I digress...

This post was supposed to have been an update on the progress of my novel. A novel for which I still have no title. And yes that still bothers me. I actually have a file with about 30 different title ideas, but not one of them really sticks out as "the one." And for a book which I have already spent the past 2 months and 1 day writing, is already at 204 pages and has roughly 45,000 words, I am not about to pick just any title for it. I'm sure it'll come to me at some point. Maybe when it's all done and the magical words dance across my eyes in a dream or something. Regardless, I am having fun writing it and right now the action is picking up and it's starting to get good!