So, I’m “writing” a YA novel about a 16 year old girl
The scare quotes aren’t meant to be self-deprecating so much as they’re meant to be accurate…I’m averaging maybe 8 pages a month, which means it should be finished by approximately…never. But! I think I figured out what my problem was: not my hazy-at-best sense of the plot, or my crippling lack of imagination, but my lack of the right musical accompaniment! Anyway: Problem. Solved. I just made a playlist of basically every song I listened to when I was 16…30 seconds in and I totally reverted to my angsty, insecure, sophomore-year self. I figure I should be able to bang the rest of this baby out in, what, 20 minutes? Half an hour?