If I can help it, I don’t write at all on Sundays. I use that time to serve in my church, nap, and hang out with my family. It’s a wonderful day!
This Sunday my family watched “She’s The Man.” Amanda Bynes is one of our favorite actresses, and our whole family was great fans of The Amanda Show even before she became a popular film star. It’s a fun movie (for teens and above) about a girl who poses as a boy for two weeks in order to make the soccer boys team and prove herself.
I laughed all the way through the movie except the part where I gasped . . . seriously, because this girl thinks the boy she has fallen for has stood her up. She thinks she sees him coming, but it’s the yard care worker setting up the sprinklers.
Then . . . she turns around to head back to the dorms, and there stands this tall, light-haired, broad-shouldered Duke, in a tux no less! I literally gasped LOUDLY . . . to the amusement of my family!
I don’t know about you, but its times like this when I still feel like a teen inside. Sometimes I look at my kids–who are teens themselves–and think . . . Oh man, I’m the responsible one here!
Then there are other times, like when I’m looking over a new book contract, and think, “I’m not sure I’m old enough to be making these type of decisions.” (Yes, I’m 35, I know, but still . . .)
Of course, there are times when this inner child can come in handy . . . such as when your kids want to race you to the bottom at the waterslides. Or when they want to watch The Sponge Bob Movie, yet again. When the teen moms I hang out with spill their guts while painting their fingernails and filling up on junk food. Or when a publisher contacts you to see if you’re interested in writing for teen girls. Uh, yeah, I think I can do that one.
So, you’ve heard it here first folks. I might be writing teen fiction soon. How fun is that?! I’ll continue writing the in-depth historical novels, of course. But everyone needs to have a little fun now and then, indulging the kid inside!
As a mom of teens-(17, 14 well- and 4, not a teen but he thinks he is)
I say: HAVE AT, Woman! But, JUST girls? The shelves are thin in the good fiction for teens all around-;)
ps I’m still waiting to “feel” like the grown up. You’d a thunk LABOR would do that- but it didn’t- I’m a slow learner)
As a mom of teens-(17, 14 well- and 4, not a teen but he thinks he is)
I say: HAVE AT, Woman! But, JUST girls? The shelves are thin in the good fiction for teens all around-;)
ps I’m still waiting to “feel” like the grown up. You’d a thunk LABOR would do that- but it didn’t- I’m a slow learner)
As a mom of teens-(17, 14 well- and 4, not a teen but he thinks he is)
I say: HAVE AT, Woman! But, JUST girls? The shelves are thin in the good fiction for teens all around-;)
ps I’m still waiting to “feel” like the grown up. You’d a thunk LABOR would do that- but it didn’t- I’m a slow learner)
As a mom of teens-(17, 14 well- and 4, not a teen but he thinks he is)
I say: HAVE AT, Woman! But, JUST girls? The shelves are thin in the good fiction for teens all around-;)
ps I’m still waiting to “feel” like the grown up. You’d a thunk LABOR would do that- but it didn’t- I’m a slow learner)
Girls for now . . . then who knows?!
It does take time to write these books 🙂 I wish I could write faster!
Who said we had to grow up? I haven’t, lol!
Granted I have a four-year-old and six-year-old so I can still be a kid with them, yep that’s me.