Home Alone

No, not the movie. I am HOME ALONE!!! YES (Insert virtual fist bump here)

I have traveled back from seeing the children and bonus children (spouses). I got in about noon, and am wrapping up the work day. Getting ready to tackle that freaking scene that I’ve been angst’ng over for the past two dang weeks.

I’m gonna do it. Seriously. I am. I need to get moving on this book because Dani (second book) has informed me that she is tired of sitting and waiting on me. She wants to start investigating. Sitting idle is not her forte.

So when you’re writing, do your characters come to life? Do they have their own direction? Vernacular?

Oh oh OH! Vernacular!!!! OMG (Yes I know I’m not 18, but seriously omg!) I read this FANTASTIC paranormal series with wolf shifters and fairies, and pixies, and witches…. it was omg fantastic. I think there’s another book coming out and that makes me almost as happy as chomping on a bowl of my mac salad.

Anyway- – The one miss I think she had in the entire series was how the YA character spoke, how her friends spoke. That is not how the 18-25 year old’s speak. It was as if she fashioned her YA characters after rich, spoiled kids who thought they were talking like adults… Kinda? maybe? eh, I don’t know.

But it was bad. Of course, that’s only my opinion. I think the multiple awards the author has won and the number of books sold might say something different.

Either way, it didn’t stop me from rapidly turning pages and reading the entire series in record time.

It still irks me though. If you’re gonna write with a certain age, timeline, era in mind- get it right!