HeyJaredmusings of a mess in motion
part-time storyteller. full-time human. ocassional cookie snob. hope is messy. so am i.
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The One That Tried to Kill Me (opens the original)
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I was sitting at the library halfway through my first draft. It was Halloween. I had no plans. I was gorging myself on peanut M&Ms and questioning all my life choices, wanting to throw my laptop across the quiet, echoey study space because the book wasn't right. The story wasn't working. It hadn't been working for weeks at that point. Stubbornly, I refused to admit it. Not until I had to. I wanted to forget about it. Wanted to admit that the three books before it were a fluke, and I couldn't do
Screw it: Let's have the "clean" YA conversation (opens the original)
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