There is nothing more moody than a vampire starting high school. Vlad has been quite the grouch today, but I’m hoping that with some time (and maybe some chocolate chip cookies dunked in blood), he’ll come around and help me with these Ninth Grade Sucks revisions.

See, I have a process. I write a first oh-good-goddess-don’t-let-anyone-see-this-draft-it’s-just-so-I-can-get-the-story-down draft, then I let it simmer, then I revise (which is where the magic happens), then I send it to my amazing Crit Partner and wonderful readers, then I do a final brush-up and send it on to my agent. Right now I’m in revision mode (because that Wonderland outline and I need some space–also, because I missed Vlad terribly), so my mood is bound to be…well, not the best. The good thing is that though I trudge through revisions and bemoan every deletion, every word change, I know it’s for the best, and in the end, I’ll like the story much better than I do now.

And right now, I’m pretty much rambling and procrastinating. So…back to Vlad and the perils of ninth grade (you think you had it bad… –or have, or will have, depending on your age–).

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