July 21, 2010

New Series

One thing I’ve gained an amazing amount of gratification from this summer is picking up a project that I started in January 2008. I followed through with writing an incredibly tough scene I was too scared to write before. It began as a cell phone novel I worked on everyday while riding the Cable Car to and from the office. It was all going fine until reality got in the way. The scene was too dark and at the time, I was not able suspend belief and write around reality.

Cut to June 2010. I’ve come to a point where the pull to go back to this story was natural and it was okay to return. People are afraid of feeling too much when there’s nothing wrong with being emotional. People need to get more emo if you ask me. Writing all that you feel times a hundred just makes sense. The book is the first in a series, and it’s great fun to write a noirish story for teens set in a place I know so well.—Michelle