The end, that isn't an ending

Camp NaNo is over and much to my surprise I ended the month with 23,000 words! I'm feeling kind of jazzed to keep on.

I came upon an exciting scene where my MC meets up with her mother, a woman with an ax to grind -- well, who can blame her? M'miri killed two of her other mothers.

If you want to know how it played out you'll have to read my manuscript!

You know how some scenes just sing? This was one of them. It was a fun scene to write, and I'll admit I'm rather proud of it.

Still not 100% sure I have a novel length book, but the odds are feeling a lot better.

Dusting Off and Catching Up

Several NaNos have come and gone since I last posted. In fact, I'd all but forgotten that I had this blog!

*Shakes it out*
*sneezes*

To catch things up: I used a summer camp NaNo to edit my middle-grade story and concluded that the voice was really more YA. He is just too mature and sarcastic for a 10 year old.

It's a bit of a tightrope walk, the boundary between MG and YA. My main character (MC) is 12/13. From my understanding, that is the cusp age. However, YA novels--especially contemporary YA, tend to deal a lot with dating, and my MC isn't thinking about girls in that way yet--not really. In fact, I don't want to write a book about teenage dating angst.

So, I find myself in a bit of a quandary. Just where do you fit, Jared?