I think I've mentioned that I'm re-writing the novel I wrote for my first NaNoWriMo. I started out with low expectations, since I think my self-confidence was at its lowest ebb at the time, and I absolutely hated most of the book. Since then, I've grown to love this new version of the same story. The changes that have happened, almost without my realizing it, are fantastic.

My main character is wonderful; she's no longer your typical Bad-a** female protagonist. She's also not quite as whiny as she was at first. She's a genuinely lonely, scared young woman who eventually takes on a leadership role that's thrust upon her and turns out to be a pretty bad-a** leader with mad street cred. She's becoming something like how she was when I first created her; independent, crafty, tough and street-wise. But it's a hard process, getting to that point. So far she's been horribly sick, kidnapped, and drugged. Soon she'll become addicted to morphine, and after that, who knows? Somehow she ends up as the crazy character she's meant to be.

Other than her changes, the story has been pretty much the same. One of my characters is more insane; the whole tone of the story is a little darker. I like it. It's not the light-hearted kid's book it was when I first wrote it. It's still Young Adult fiction, but not all kiddish and simple like it was. It's evolved, and I love it.

My concentration has been a bit divided lately. I've been focusing on reading a lot, ever since I got a library card, and I've been trying to write more, and I've been exploring the single life. So forgive me if some of my posts are random, rambling, incomprehensible, or any combination of the three. It doesn't help that most of them will probably be written late at night, when my mind isn't quite where it should be, and I've been awake later than I ought to have been. Thankfully I will be done with school soon, and I will have more free time to write, and update my blog. Don't think I've abandoned you, readers, for I have not.

Fare well.

- Aimee