What I'm Working On This Week

This week, I'm starting a new book!

I spent the last few weeks of December outlining a new book I want to write. (I'll talk more about outlining soon.) Now I'm ready to get to actually writing it. I'm very nervous! I always get nervous before writing the first sentence. What will it be? How will I start? What will the main characters voice be like? I already have some ideas about all of that (that's what the outlining is for!) but some of it I'll make up on the spot. Then, when I finish the first draft and go back to do revisions, some of it will stay, and some of it will go.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. Monday morning, right after I bathe and have my breakfast, I'll be writing the first words of a brand new book...

Which I'm not going to tell you about.

Not until it's finished.

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What I'm reading: I've been on a mystery kick lately, so I decided to read all of Agatha Christie's novels starring detective Hercule Poirot. I'm on book #5 (out of 33!). It's called The Mystery of the Blue Train.