What a difference a day makes

[mrissa]

Dere branez,

Come back! I knede you! Will phede you hazzelnuts and book abote Korean War.

Luv,
mrissa

Dear brain,

Good to see you again! I missed you so much! We have a lot to do together this week, so we'd better get started. First let's take a minute to enjoy being together again, though.

Love,
mrissa

Dear brain,

Oh. I thought we were going to enjoy some alone time, but I see you brought friends. Including...a mainstream YA novel? Really?

Brain, the honeymoon is over.

Love and exasperation,
mrissa

Comments

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

I think your brain is trying to break up with you. Gently.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

That YA novel doesn't involve say...three young queens between 19-24, sometime in the 1800s, who are thrown into power when their fathers and older brothers are all killed in the same month, purely by accident they're told, so they band together against the rest of the countries in the European Compact in order to find the truth and stay alive? With maybe a touch of...magic to help them along?

That isn't your book by any chance at all?

Because I think it needs to be. I'm sure it's not mine.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Alas, no. This is a realio trulio mainstream YA novel, contemporary, no magic.

I am as baffled as you are.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

Oh....

Drat and damn. I was hoping that one was yours.

I guess I'll have to keep it then.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

By "mainstream" I assume you mean "has magic pants and chaste vampires?"

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Nooooooo!

[bradipo.livejournal.com]

Really, if you've stretched out the honeymoon with your brain for, what, 28 years? That's not so bad. How many honeymoons last more than a month?

[columbina.livejournal.com]

This.

[pameladean]

Brains. You can't stop watching them for a minute, or they drag this stuff home. They're like beagles.

P.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

They roll in it. And then if you do manage to get it washed off them, the house smells like wet beagle.

[pameladean]

I will try not to call your book "the wet beagle book," but it will be a struggle.

When David and I were driving to dinner this evening, a woman walking a beagle crossed the street. "Oh, look, it's a beagle!" I said. "Has it it got a mainstream YA novel in its mouth?"

P.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I am trying very hard not to write this book, so I have hopes that it mostly do not have to refer to it at all. What I am doing is writing down the bits that pop into my head, and then closing the file and running away.

Ideally this will not result in a book any time soon.