Look who survived her first semester of college! Winter break has officially begun, which means I can work more on writing and editing. There will be three things I'm planning on doing, writing-wise, this break:
1) Look over and edit my book, The Christmas Spirit, then continue sending out query letters to agents. Maybe I'll have better luck with getting one during the Christmas season?
2) Write short stories involving Christmas. What? I'm a little obsessed. . . . I've already written one that was inspired by how warm the fire in the fireplace is.
3) Check out The Nutcracker and the Mouse King from the library. It is on my Christmas list, but I want to go ahead and start reading it. It's part of my research for my Nutcracker book.
In addition to finishing my first semester, I finished David Levithan's book, Wide Awake. In the "About the Author" blurb on the very last page, I was amazed that he specialized in both English and Political Science in college. If my first-year seminar was any indication, I don't have the stomach for Political Science.
The preparation for next semester's classes involves brain-storming on a plot for a screenplay. I'll either do a screenplay for The Christmas Spirit or a couple of the other ideas rolling around in my head.
What about you authors and/or students out there? What will you be doing this December and January?
P.S.: I recommend Wide Awake to anyone who enjoys queer YA lit or political YA lit. I feel it's more of a romance, but Levithan is amazing at creating these worlds that are different from ours yet feel like they could be our world. This book makes you feel like having a gay Jewish president won't be a thing for fiction for long. Though I do wonder how those "non-shopping malls" work if you have to pay twice as much for items, with half of the money going to charity. How do you keep the stores from going bankrupted AND the consumers financial situations afloat?
