Ghosts

Guess what guys! Halloween is in less than a week! Who's excited? I'm excited. Are you excited?

Halloween is the best holiday because it revolves solely on candy and dressing up, which are two of the most awesome things in the world.

So speaking of Halloween, I didn't get to finish my teenage-ghosts book because it was due back at the library, but I was sort of OK with it because I'm 83% sure it didn't have real ghosts in it. So I think I will go to the library tomorrow and check out some books because now I don't have any!

And speaking of ghosts, in class today, we talked about spooky things like vampires and ghosts because Halloween is upon us. We also worked on our young adult novels.

OK, here's the thing about YA novels. I don't really like writing them (or reading them sometimes). I always feel pressured to make it a little more "edgy" or "serious" because YA is all about internal conflict (yeah, not entirely, I know, but still. More than a middle grade novel).

And the problem with this is that is sounds so BORING to me. Some people can do it, and do it really well. I am not one of those people. So to get around this feeling of I-have-to-write-about-how-hard-high-school-is or something (because there seem to be a lot of books like that), I like to throw something a little supernatural or other-worldly into my novels aimed toward YA. Just to lighten the mood a bit.

Example: Once I wrote about a girl who found a genie in the high school bathroom. That was fun.

So this time, I'm thinking a ghost. Because I've never written about ghosts before! And ghosts are great.

And that's how the two statements I wrote five paragraphs ago relate to each other.

 I'm having a lot of trouble with this story, so all I have for you today is one line I managed to squeeze out of my brain:

"I like going to the zoo when I’m upset because animals aren’t stupid like people are. So that’s where I was the day that Nick dumped me."

P.S. I don't want this to sound like I hate books that are edgy or really traumatic or something like that. I'm just saying I hate writing them. And sometimes there are books that write something edgy solely because it's "in", and that's what I'm trying to avoid. It's just not my style.   

ok how many people have I offended with this post