beginnings

I wrote the first paragraph of the new book tonight. It felt...amazing. Terrifying and rich and normal and extraordinary. And good. Really, really good. It's been a long time--too, too long--since I've written new words and even longer since I've been in a new world with new characters. This book is new and different for me in a lot of ways and it's definitely letting me know. *wry grin* Pretty much everything I thought I understood about the way I worked has been challenged so far with this story. (Plotting? Pffft. We don't want to wait for no stinking plotting! And so on...) It was really starting to freak me out and it was such a pleasant relief to find that the writing feels just the same.

This one really feels like I've just wandered into the labyrinth (as Marjorie Liu might say) and I'm loving it as much as it's scaring me. How do your beginnings make you feel?

I'm posting this ridiculous word meter because I'm so deliriously happy to have begun, even though I've made so little progress (numerically speaking) it doesn't even register.

115 / 60000 words. 0% done!


Oh, and be sure to check back here on Monday for a very special interview and a chance to win a copy of The Eternal Kiss!