Thoughts

Well, the odds had it this time as well. I couldn't find an appropriate moment to tell my teacher I was writing a book, so I didn't give the first chapter to her, or even a few sentences, really. I wouldn't say I chickened out, but I had no idea how to tell her without gloating or something. Perhaps she would have thought I was showing off, since I had to explain to her what "raining cats and dogs" means (for which I got an A+, by the way, no idea why) and she pronounces "lives" as "leaves", but that's beside the point. The point being... *looks above* that I didn't give it to her. But something unexpected happened. Just when I was waiting for the bus, one of my classmates that I don't really know well somehow tricked it out of me. Actually, I'm pretty sure I was deep in thought about what was going to happen next and my best friend asked me what I was thinking about and I said "my book" and Eve (the friend I don't really know) didn't hear and my best friend repeated that and Eve asked what the book was about and since I had the first chapter printed, I just gave it to her. I hope she likes it. Or that she'll even understand it, because where I come from, people who know even a little bit of English know: 1)the British English and 2)from text books. So, things like "sure as hell" or even "gonna" (and possibly "by the way" and "anyway") aren't common in Latvian speech. It is in mine, so...

Yeah, so basically, one door may close, but another will open and maybe you get to peek inside the third through the keyhole, too. Who knows.

In other news I am now officially done with Chapter 1 of The Changing Cloak and it only took 13 drafts. Sigh. I hope to work a lot on the novel this weekend and perhaps even get chapter 2 done. Or maybe it will be easier than I thought. At the moment, though I am very tired and thinking of writing chapter 1 from another point of view (Stephenie Meyer rip-off, anyone? What can I do, Midnight Sun is my all-time favorite book... And maybe this is starting a trend that many first-person authors will follow). It might help to get to know the other lead character even more and explore her head a little bit. Which is going to be hard, because her head is very strange (which is why I love her, of course) and half the time even I have no idea if she's deliberately weird, delusional or has cross-checked every piece of trivia she says (for example, hair salons for lions, monkey distaste for monkey-bars and wars between Ancient Greeks and Egyptians over plagiarized dances. All right, I'm pretty sure she made that one up, but who knows). Oh wait, she doesn't say anything about that in chapter 1. Relieved sigh. Anyway, I might do that in a little while.

Jane