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New book alert! What Would Emma Do?
One of the best parts about being a writer is all the fabulous people I have met, and can now count as friends. One of those friends is Eileen Cook, author of Unpredictable. Eileen has a new book out that I can't wait to get my greedy little hands on. What Would Emma Do. Check it out: What Would Emma Do?
Simon Pulse/ December 30, 2008
Thou shalt not kiss thy best friend’s boyfriend…again…. There is no greater sin than kissing you best friend’s boyfriend. So when  Emma breaks that golden rule, she knows she’s messed up big-time. Especially since she lives in the smallest town ever, where everyone knows everything about everyone else….and especially because she maybe kinda wants to do it again. Now her best friend isn’t speaking to her, her best guy friend is making things totally weird, and Emma is running full speed toward certain social disaster. This is so not the way senior year was supposed to go. Time to pray for a minor miracle. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s time for Emma to stop trying to please everyone around her, and figure out what she wants for herself. What others are saying: “Sassy and sly and sweet all at the same time, this book made me laugh out loud.” – Meg Cabot author of the Princess Diaries “Not since Judy Blume’s Margaret introduced herself to God has there been such a funny, geuine, conflicted, wanna-be-sort-good-maybe-later girl as Emma. Eileen Cook’s tone as she takes on the big ones – life, love, faith and friendship is pitch perfect.” – Jacqueline Mitchard author of Deep End of the Ocean and Midnight Twins “Smart and fun and full of heart.” – Sarah Mlynowski author of Bras and Broomsticks About the Author: Eileen Cook spent most of her teen years wishing she were someone else or somewhere else, which is great training for a writer. When she was unable to find any job postings for world famous author, she went to Michigan State University and became a counselor so she could at least afford her book buying habit. But real people have real problems, so she returned to writing because she liked having the ability to control the ending. Which is much harder with humans. You can read more about Eileen, her books, and the things that strike her as funny at http://www.eileencook.com/. Eileen lives in Vancouver with her husband and two dogs and no longer wishes to be anyone or anywhere else. Buy the book here! Labels: books, geeky fun, happy times, writing
Book fun!
We'll take a break from fun with pictures to share a little of what I'm reading: Recently finished-Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon - worth the wait, though I'm still thinking about it and the ramifications that she's created for the Dark Hunter world. I may have to read it again very soon, since I'm sure I missed a ton in my marathon session. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyers - here's another one I enjoyed but I'm left thinking an awful lot about it. For the first time in a while the book I was reading affected my dreams (in general just making them a bit screwy). His Mistress by Morning by Elizabeth Boyle - a local writer and a woman I consider a friend, this is one of her newest (though not THE newest). I loved this book and the world she's created. Elizabeth took a chance by adding a touch of magic to her newest series, and it paid off. I can't wait for the next one.Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr - I picked this one up at conference, and I'm glad I did. The author takes on the world of the Fae in her debut. She has created a dark world, one where there is no easy answer, and I appreciate her ability to stay true to her story in the end. She could have taken the easy way out, but it would have ended the series, and left her readers greatly disappointed. Instead she took the hard road, and the book is all the better for it. Currently reading-Goy Crazy by Melissa Schorr - I admit the title is what caught me, but the concept dragged me in. G.C. is the story of 15 yr. old Rachel Lowenstein (I just caught the joke here, ladies...haha!) and her attempts to navigate high school, dating and faith. Up soon-How to Ruin My Teenage Life by Simone ElkelesDriving Sideways by Jess RileyDelicious by Sherry ThomasShrink to Fit by Dona SarkarAnd a slew of others...eep! With school set to start next week I better get to work!Labels: books, geeky fun
Oh, but I couldn't...
I am a compulsive book buyer. There, I admit it. Of course, most of you out there reading this blog are also compulsive book buyers, so I know I'm not alone in the world. But do you have a mother like mine? My mom enjoys reading. She's not the type to re-read a book, so she often gets hers from the library (or Costco because they're on discount). We have very different taste in books, but every once in a while she'll borrow one from me. This is where life gets weird. See, I love to loan out my books. I want them back, don't get me wrong, but I'm happy to share the love. As a matter of fact, if I can get another reader excited about a series that I enjoy? It's like the heavens open up and a choir of angels begin to sing. When I come across a book I believe she'll like, I make sure to share. I do so almost without thinking. I don't notice if it's a hardcover or soft cover. If the spine is broken or not. I don't usually even worry about how long she has it. But mom does. She worries about all of it. Apparently I take such good care of my books, I've given her a complex. As much as she enjoys borrowing certain books, she gets very nervous...and has almost turned and given them right back a time or to. Don't even get me started on the signed copies. You'd think I loaned her the Hope Diamond. Or perhaps the Queen of England's Crowned Jewels. I don't understand her either. I've never yelled at anyone for returning a book in a condition other than the way it left me. I think the most I've said on the subject is, "It's a signed copy, so I'd eventually like it back." Her nerves confuse me. What about you? Do you loan out books? Do you borrow books? Why or why not?Labels: books, geeky fun, random musings
Fireworks!
 I may have missed them on the 4th, but I found them the other night. Washington loves its festivals. Almost every town has a festival of some kind or other. In the summer you can pretty much find something to celebrate every weekend, thanks to this. And this weekend was our turn. Normally I miss it. I'm usually busy running around, and frankly, it screws up traffic because they close down several main roads. This time I went. Booths for food, civic groups and local business lined the parking lot. Music set the mood in the background. They even drew a crowd...even if the crowd was lame. C'mon people! Where there's music there's movement. If the band tells you to get up and move, then get up and move! I really don't understand this polite, "must sit still" mentality when it comes to live music here. I will never understand it.
Still, they ended the festivities with a bang...literally. I took myself down to the grocery store and sat on a bench to watch the fireworks explode. The light show totally made up for the lack of them on the 4th of July. It was fun to listen to the children babble on in excitement. I even didn't mind listening to one man explain light speed v. sounds speed to his 7 year old daughter. So here's hoping your weekend went off with a bang! Labels: festivities, geeky fun
New discovery...
I made a fantastic new discovery the other day. It must come from having just a wee bit of too much time on my hand. I actually have the time to sit down and, oh, I don't know. Read one of my many back issues of RWR? Because I did...two of 'em! And in one I found a brave new world...or at least one that doesn't require me to wait around for twelve different sites to load. Now, this discovery won't be new to most of you. In fact, at least half of you will laugh at me. But that's okay. You want to know what it is? Really?Google Reader.It's a blog feed that works off my google account, and I'm in heaven! I click on one button, and if the google gods are feeling generous, seconds later I most of the blogs I read regularly popping up on one page...and telling me up front if they have new posts or not. No more skipping from blog to blog, hoping for new content. No more wondering if that page is going to load today, only to find out when it does, that it's the post from three days before that I've already read five times. It's freedom.Labels: geeky fun
More books!
On our walk from dinner the other night, Mom and I stopped in at the local bookstore to check out what they had to offer. Mom usually knows better than to go into a bookstore with me, since it's likely I'll be a while, but thanks to me not bringing the money with me (plus not wanting to haul them home), I put my finds on hold instead of buying them outright. This week is definitely the week of new releases from many of my favorite hours. The offerings include: Allison Brennan's TEMPTING EVILJill Shalvis's SUPERB AND SEXYLynn Kurland's WITH EVERY BREATHand the long awaited LOVER ENSHRINED by J.R. Ward.Can we say I'm in heaven? Too bad I'm supposed to be using this time to work on my report cards.Labels: books, geeky fun
Tag! You're it...
The ever lovely Dona Sarkar tagged me on her blog, to participate in a fun meme. The rules are: 1. Pick up the nearest book.2. Open to page 123.3. Find the fifth sentence.4. Make up the next three sentences and post them.5. Tag five people and post a comment to the person who tagged me.Next to me right now is my just returned copy of Unpredictable by Eileen Cook. The fifth sentence on pg. 123 reads: She brushes her silver-blonde hair off her face. Her hand shook, and she prayed no one noticed. She hated speaking in public, and especially hated speaking in front of a bunch of major donors. She opened her mouth, then promptly shut it in a fairly decent imitation of a gaping fish. So there you have it. My three cents. What are yours? I'm tagging all of you! C'mon, I dare you to pick up the first book you come across and give it a try.Labels: geeky fun, memes, random musings
Conversations concluded...
I thought I'd throw together the last couple of emails into one post. I hope you enjoyed our conversations. For more information on Diana's books, please visit her websites at http://www.dianagroe.com or http://www.emilybryan.com. ***I love that you were passing Distracting the Duchess around your meeting. That's totally something I'd do. and it sounds like the kind of trouble I'd cause.You make a good point. We don't want the humor so distracting, that the reader loses sight of the story. It's a gentle balance, because you want the reader to keep reading. You want the book to be engaging, but running gags aren't enough. I think that's why I try to balance the physical humor with the conversational. The humor needs to reveal something about your characters. This is especially important to me during my more revealing scenes. Just last night I wrote a the scene where my hero goes to visit the heroine for the first time since he's realized she's in his town. He's confronted by her best friend, who has no intention of letting him see her friend. This could have come across as a very intense scene, but if I had, I would have lost the heart of these characters. The feel deeply, but they cover a lot of that emotion with their wit. I had to start and restart the scene several times to get just the right feel for it all.Did you find it difficult moving from the more emotional historicals you've been writing, to the more lighthearted Emily books? I'd imagine it would be a bit like having a split personality.Hugs, E.***Re: switching from dark, angsty drama to light-hearted romps. Oh, yeah, it was a stretch, but there's light and dark in everyone. It was just a matter of letting one side of my personality out a bit more. The hardest part has been getting used to having two names. I have yet to answer to Emily, but it'll come.
Part of why comedy is so hard is that so often things are only funny because they happen naturally. There's nothing natural about writing comedy, but you have to make it seem as if the joke happens without effort. So setting up the comedic premise is important. My stories have to live in a place where funny things can happen almost inevitably.
But I do have to watch myself or I'll let things get serious. Part of that has to do with the fact that my books are love stories first and foremost and loving someone is about as serious as life gets. Plus, I love to add adventure to my tales. Even though life is mixed portions of comedy and drama, we expect fiction to be more one thing than another. I start my stories with the promise of laughs. Part of my job is to make sure I don't give my readers whiplash later, but I do sneak in some adventure and a few somber moments just to make it real.
Writing my Emily Bryan stories has been great fun. Hopefully, the joy I feel at the keyboard will transfer to my readers.-DianaLabels: geeky fun, writers aren't crazy, writing
Conversations part 6, in which I'm redundant...again...
I hope you all are enjoying our Conversations. I know Diana and I had a blast discussing our approachs to writing...and a myriad of other things. Tonight you get a two-for-one special, since I inadvertantly missed yesterday's post. To make it up to you, I've posted both my email, and Diana's reply. Enjoy!***I was the one getting acupuncture, not him. But I was a little worried the doc would wander in to ask why I was talking to myself. I like the idea of keeping your theme in mind with a sticky note. Sometimes that's the hardest part about not having it all filled out for me, I can easily get distracted by a great scene, but not realize that it really has nothing to do with anything else. Oh, and I realized I didn't address the romantic comedy statement you made earlier. For me the biggest part of making it funny is if you can have a sense of humor about it. I tend to use a lot of physical comedy in my stories, something that's hard to write, since it's visual. A perfect example is that in my latest book, one of the opening scenes if of my character watch her shoes bounce down the highway behind her car as she drives. it came out of a real event from when I was a child, and sets the stage perfectly for the way her life is going at that point. I also use a lot of what I consider a sarcastic sense of humor. Of course, humor is such a personal thing, you really have to go with, "Does it make me laugh?" If it makes you laugh you're on to a great start in my opinion. From there you can worry about if it translates or not. Of course, as most of my blog readers know, I crack myself up, so I might be a bit scewed on this topic.***Ok! There's a perfect example of what's funny. A misunderstanding. I really thought you were wringing the truth out of your hero by threatening him with those long needles. (Not sure what that assumption says about me. Hmmmm.)
I attended a comedy workshop by Mary Janice Davidson last year at the Romantic Times Convention. She is wickedly funny and has some definite ideas about it. She says she usually aims for a smile. If you make your reader shoot coke out their nose, you risk pulling them out of the story.
That said, I really like to go for the snort. A couple weeks ago I took a copy of DISTRACTING THE DUCHESS to the RWA meeting here in Massachusetts. While the chapter president was opening the session and taking care of all her parliamentary stuff, I was sending the DUCHESS around the room. I tried to use comedy as a hook for the this story and it seemed to work. As the book made the rounds and the women read the first sentence, the giggles and nose noises followed like a wave in a football stadium.
The chapter president was not amused.
It's great when the humor accomplishes two things at once. Your shoes flying down the highway are not only a good humorous visual, but it says something about your heroine's life. Not just gone to the dogs, but doggone!
We're having way too much fun here. I need to get busy. VEXING THE VISCOUNT will not write itself.Warmly,Diana or Emily (whatever)Labels: geeky fun, writers aren't crazy, writing
Conversations part 5, in which there is a misunderstanding...
I did something different for my last story (this is a romantic suspense that's currently under consideration, wish me luck!). To decide on plot points before I started writing the synopsis, I wrote one-sentence points as they came to me on sticky notes and plastered them all over my full length mirror. It really helped to be able to slip them around in different places however I pleased until I was satisfied that the story had a cohesive order about it. Then I used them to write the synopsis (which I had to re-write after I finished the manuscript because I veered off in different directions a couple of times once I got into the story). But it got me going and one of the most helpful sticky notes was the one-word theme for the story:TRUST. Whenever I needed to make a course correction, TRUST is the rudder I steered the story by. If the direction of the book wasn't developing that theme in some fashion, I knew I'd wandered too far from the initial synopsis. Interviewing a character while giving him an accupuncture, hmm? A bit sadistic, but I like it. Best,Dianawww.dianagroe.comLabels: geeky fun, writers aren't crazy, writing
Conversations part 4, or why it pays to take your time...
Oh, wouldn't it be nice if the words just dripped on to the keyboard? I think the thing about not plotting everything out that scares everyone, is the idea of the unknown. They are scared they might write themselves into a corner, or that they'll lose a thread somewhere. Some need to be able to see all the little details, to know where to drop hints, etc. Lacey did a plotting presentation for the chapter a couple of months ago, and the intensity of understanding that it takes was overwhelming. The Tiaras kept laughing at me as my eyes got bigger with each new idea we had to think about. It was way too much. And it's not that I don't enjoy plotting. I actually love to talk about my book with another writer, or another ear. Or to help another writer talk through their plot points. That's how I work through difficult scenes. But something about putting those ideas down on to paper prematurely makes them too concrete for me. I'm a big picture kind of gal, in all areas of my life. Even in my teaching, I'd rather let the little details work themselves out. I figure as long as I know the major points I have to hit, how I get there will work itself out. Do you tend to hold revisions until you're finished? Or do you rewrite as you go? I do remember your love of the Jade Lee workshop, and how quickly everything seemed to turn around once you got that beginning fixed up. That's kind of where I'm at with my current manuscript. I'm hoping by taking a little extra time now, I'll save myself pain and anguish later. Labels: geeky fun, writers aren't crazy, writing
Conversations Part 3, or why Diana's husband is a lucky guy...
Diana: Readers should understand that I'll probably make changes as I go, but the refining is part of the process. If anyone would like to read the first draft of VEXING THE VISCOUNT (first chapter only) I've posted it on my website. www.emilybryan.com (Click on the Books page for a link to VEXING). For those who remember Jade Lee's online workshop (online workshop for Eastside RWA), you'll know she eviscerated my initial offering for PLEASURING THE PIRATE. After much re-working, that sad start turned into something my editor made a two-book offer on. So the moral of the story is: It doesn't have to be perfect the first time. We just have to not be satisfied with the first time. I think lots of writers believe the story should just drip effortlessly from their fingertips, and I'm sure there are a few "wunderkinds" out there. But for most of us, the difference between writing for ourselves and writing for a paying audience is REVISION. We have to be willing to belabor our writing, to polish our prose till it sparkles, to rethink our whole premise if we need to and (sniff of sorrow) be willing to toss out everything that hints at being sub-standard. Interesting that you like to talk out your plotpoints, Erin. I run things by my husband all the time. He sometimes comes up with a unique slant I hadn't considered. Bless his heart, he even proof-reads my stories though romance isn't typically his genre. He helps me with the guy POV and whenever I'm stymied about how a guy would react to things, he's my sounding board. His favorite part of my books? The love scenes, of course! But he totally doesn't get the value of a 'near-miss.'Come back tomorrow for more convesations, when we find out just how scary a plotting board is to me...Labels: geeky fun, writers aren't crazy, writing
Conversations with Diana Groe
 When we first began this experiment, Diana and I went back and forth on what we wanted to share with you. Finally I asked Diana how she starts her books, as I'm always curious to hear how other pantsers get going. Here's what she had to say: I'm just at the starting point for VEXING THE VISCOUNG, my Spring 2009 release. I have to turn in the first draft August 1st. Right now, I have about 50 pages of noodling.
I have an idea about who my characters are (I cheated a bit with the heroine. I already knew her. She's a 10 year old in PLEASURING THE PIRATE. She's a firmly on the shelf spinster by her own choice by the time VEXING THE VISCOUNT starts.)
I know my hero is a threadbare viscount, whose father (an earl) lost most of the family fortune in the South Sea stock swindle (an actual historical financial scandal). Lucian is determined to rebuild the family fortunes, not by marrying money, but by recovering a lost Roman treasure. He's uncovered an enigmatic ancient tablet describing an ancient theft of the Legion's payroll with clues to its location. Since Daisy (our heroine) found a hoard of pirate gold in PLEASURING THE PIRATE, she's been bitten by the treasure hunting bug and longs to have another adventure.
However, Lucian doesn't want anything to do with her since his father blames her uncle for his financial woes (Daisy's uncle wouldn't invest in the South Sea Company when it might have buoyed up the values long enough for Lucian's father to pull out.) So enterprising Daisy pretends to be an elusive French courtesan (who always wears a mask) who offers to finance Lucian's excavations as he follows the Roman clues to the treasure. Her one caveat is that he accept her agent as part of his team. YOu guessed it. The "courtesan" sends Daisy to guard her interests.
And that's about as far as I've got. The year is 1731, so I expect a few Jacobites will be after the treasure as well in order to finance the next Scottish uprising. And I know Lucian will be trying to seduce the courtesan (Daisy) who only wanted a financial business relationship with him while keeping Daisy (who's nursed a crush on him since she first met him when they were children and she accidentally gave him the scar that he still sports on his chin) at arm's length because of her family connections.
Now, I know some authors would sit down at this point and map out each scene. I wish with all my heart I was one of them. The closest I can come to it is to continue this rambling narrative until I have the bones of my story down. I've also talked to writers who find making collages helpful. By arranging and rearranging the pictures, they begin to see relationships between the characters that they hadn't suspected before. Mostly, I try to follow a "hero's journey" type of structure to my stories, all the while keeping a sticky note attached to my computer that says, "It's the relationship, stupid!" I have to watch myself or my plotting and intrigue will overshadow the romance.
Oh! And now I'm expected to be funny as well. Sheesh! I'd say I felt like a plate-spinner on the old Ed Sullivan show, but that dates me something awful. Writing comedy is another twist in my career that's given me a very steep learning curve as well.
Happy Writing, Be sure to come back tomorrow, when I'll post the next installment. Labels: geeky fun, writing
Welcome guest blogger: Diana Groe a.k.a. Emily Bryan
As a special treat for you all, and let's be honest for me too, I invited Diana to join me for a series of posts about the writer's life...from a pantser's point of view. Over the next several days, I'll post our conversation here for you to read. Until then, you can order Emily Bryan's first release, Distracting the Duchess, at amazon.com. DtD continues to receive fabulous reviews from all angles, including Publisher's Weekly and RTReviews. Writing also as Diana Groe, her releases Maidensong and Erinsong have put her on many an auto-buy list. DtD is her first shot at lighthearted historical romance, and I can't wait for to pick up my own copy. Diana and I have had way too much fun chatting with each other, and can't wait to bring it to you. Make sure to check back frequently for updates on our chat.Labels: geeky fun, random musings, writing
Guilty Pleasures...
We all have 'em, those movies you can't help but watch. Those cheesy romantic comedies we watch when we're blue, or just not feeling well. Those movies they play on channels like ABC Family and Lifetime. I promise to share mine, if you'll share yours. Anyone else remember when the first The Cutting Edge came out? I remember loving the movie about the ex-hockey player and the rich-b**ch figure skater. I couldn't help it. There was something about the bad writing, the cheesy dialogue, and the sweet love story. I couldn't help myself. Which explains why I watch it when it comes on t.v. It doesn't explain why I watch The Cutting Edge 2 when it comes on. But I couldn't help myself! I swear! I mean c'mon! It's the story of their daughter. Anyone who has enjoyed the old romance sagas like the MacGregors will understand my weak willpower. None of this explains why I felt compelled to watch the third installment tonight. I could blame spaghetti brain from report cards, or simple exhaustion. I could try to make you think that there was nothing better on television. All would be true, yet all would be a lie. The simple fact is that these are my guilty pleasures. Cheesy romantic comedies with predictable dialogue and expected results. I just can't help myself. So, now it's your turn. What's yours?Labels: geeky fun, movies
Freedom!
I am happy to announce I'm finally free of report cards...at least until June. But we won't speak of it. Still, I'm done with the bane of my existance and spring has sprung...sort of. It's still nice and cool out, but the cherry blossoms have begun to bloom, and the sun shines more and more frequently. I love it!Another sign of spring is my elementary school's annual auction. Funds raised at the auction help to fund many projects at the school, along with a fair number of salaries. I didn't go last year, but after all the stories I had to go to this year's. And let me tell you, this auction surpassed any expectation I might have had. The theme? Denim & Diamonds. And when I tell you that some people showed up in gun belts? I'm not exaggerating. I laughed so hard last night...too bad I can't share half of the stories. Let's just say fun was had by all, and children's artwork went to the highest bidder. Truth, my friends, is most definitely stranger than fiction. Thank goodness the parents of my classroom are such wonderful, down to earth people. I'm so lucky this year. That said, it's back to writing, revising and the fun that is normal life. Labels: geeky fun, spring, teaching
Yiddish word of the...
Okay, I give up. Clearly I have good intentions, but I can't seem to get it together to do one of these a day, let alone a week. So from here on out we'll just call it Yiddish Word of the Whenever I Darn Well Feel Like It. I think it has a nice ring, don't you?So for all you faithful readers (and those of you who find me accidently...I know you're searching for info on Madonna. You got me instead, so stay awhile), here's today's word: Shmegegi - (n.) Idiot. Pronounced shmeh-geh-gee. Frankly, I think this one has a much better tone attached to it. I mean really, when you're calling someone an idiot, don't you want to have some pizzazz when you go about it? I know I do. So there you go. I hope you enjoyed tonight's installment. Stay tuned for more words, and for a very special interview (I swear, Eileen, I'm sending the questions!) and possibly the answer to how I missed the hellmouth under East Quad.Labels: geeky fun, Yiddish words
How to Salsa in a Sari
 Okay. Yes, technically Dona's signing was last week, but I didn't want to do a post until I'd finished reading the book. That way I could give you a real endorsement.How to Salsa in a Sari is Dona Sarkar's first book...and a fabulous one at that. The more I read, the more I lost myself in the story of a girl whose life has turned upside down. Issa doesn't know how to accept the changes her life is faced with, and will do anything to keep her life the same. I admit to having to put the book down once or twice, but purely because I couldn't sit there and watch Issa make such horrible decisions. But those same decisions are what I love about Dona's book. She has managed to really get into the head of her characters, and bring out their flaws and fabulousness. Even more so, she managed to make me forget who the writer is...and that's hard to do! So congrats Dona, on a fabulous debut! The rest of you? Go buy this book! Labels: books, geeky fun, happy times
We all need to feel good about ourselves...
And sometimes we need a little reminder of just how wonderful we are. If you're having that kind of day, and need a pick me up go here. All you have to do is type in your name, and hit Okay. Then let the flattery begin. Labels: geeky fun, random musings
Flashback...
Tonight marked the first skate party of the year for the school where I work. Every year they have anywhere from 2-4 skate parties, and all last year I managed to not go. Don't get me wrong, I love rollerskating (four wheels, people, four wheels). When I was 8 it was the epitome of cool to have a rollerskating birthday party. But I'm older now. And rollerskating? Doesn't really have that cool factor any more. Still, I agreed to join the rest of my grade-level teammates. I walked through the door and was instantly transported back in time 20 years. The smell of sweaty feet assailed us, and once again I was 8 years old. Unfortunately, I don't fall like an 8 year old anymore. In a poorly executed move to help a fallen kid, and managed to go down like a chopped oak, landing smack on my tuches (and cell phone). The cell phone, thankfully, is fine. The tuches? Not so much. I'm hurting, and will most likely be stiff and limping tomorrow. On the brightside? To quote a student, "Third grade teachers rock!!"And really, that makes it all worth it. Right?Labels: geeky fun, happy times, life, teaching
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Emma breaks that golden rule, she knows she’s messed up big-time. Especially since she lives in the smallest town ever, where everyone knows everything about everyone else….and especially because she maybe kinda wants to do it again. Now her best friend isn’t speaking to her, her best guy friend is making things totally weird, and Emma is running full speed toward certain social disaster. This is so not the way senior year was supposed to go.
