This writing gig? A complete pain in the butt, sometimes. But there are moments that make it soooooo worthwhile. Like last night when I yelled, “OMG!!! I KNOW WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT!!!” while I was working on DEVON’S PLAYGROUND (which, you’ll notice, is over 13,000 words today–go me!) and had to put my shades on because the Lightbulb of Inspiration was glowly so brightly over my head. And like when I looked over at my bookshelf after emailing an EIGHTH GRADE BITES tidbit to my wonderful editor and thought, “WHOA! I’m soon going to have a real live book with a cover and pages and my NAME on it!” Good moments, both. Strange, but good.

It’s a surreal thing to go through this process. I keep forgetting that an actual, physical book is coming. Sometimes it just feels like this intangible thing that we all talk about, but will never really happen. An actual book? Psshaw! Vlad is just a dream, isn’t he? Just a really neat story that’s floating around in my brain and it will never really come to fruition…will it? But yes. It will.

Freaky.

Even more freaky is the fact that I had an autograph request for the first time last week…and that I’m planning to write another solid 3,000 words today and every day until DEVON’S PLAYGROUND is finished.

But I may work in some time to convince myself I’m being published.

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