Middle of the night progress

by Shana Norris // June 4, 2006 // Comments off

I finished the first draft of Girlfriend at about 4:00am this morning. I could not fall asleep last night, which has been a recurring thing lately. So I got the laptop out and settled on the couch to write. But... Continue reading →

Not quite a day off

by Shana Norris // May 30, 2006 // Comments off

I enjoyed the three-day weekend from my day job, but I still spent my day off working. I made quite a bit of progress on Girlfriend, including getting through a section that was just difficult to write (the words DID... Continue reading →

Ready to go

by Shana Norris // May 27, 2006 // Comments off

I heard back from my agent yesterday. He liked my revisions for Libby and now…it’s ready to go out to editors! I am so nervous and so excited at the same time. I was telling my husband last night that... Continue reading →

Moving forward

by Shana Norris // May 26, 2006 // Comments off

It’s back to writing for me. I’ve spent this week focusing on revisions for Libby and Emma and did no writing on Girlfriend at all. But Libby has been completed and sent back to my agent, and Emma is now... Continue reading →

Confessions

by Shana Norris // May 23, 2006 // Comments off

Due to recent situations in celebrity gossip that everyone seems to be going crazy over, I feel I should come clean about something. I dropped my cousin when she was a baby. Twice. Thankfully the paparazzi weren’t around to see... Continue reading →

The middle-grades

by Shana Norris // May 22, 2006 // Comments off

I’m finally listening to the voice that has been in the back of my head since I first started writing Band Geeks: I think the story will work better as a middle-grade rather than YA. I’m doing other editing right... Continue reading →

News!

by Shana Norris // May 20, 2006 // Comments off

Clearly my cat Elmo is so excited about my getting an awesome agent that he’s celebrating with shoes. (He’s been cuddling up to my shoe and pushing it all around the laundry room floor all day. It also happens to... Continue reading →

Keep away from the baby

by Shana Norris // May 17, 2006 // Comments off

Babies don’t like me. Really. I have no idea what I did to offend them, but they have all declared war against me. Someone else could be holding a baby and she’ll be all happy and giggly and drooly, but... Continue reading →

Ideas, or “How did you come up with that?”

by Shana Norris // May 15, 2006 // Comments off

My fifteen-year-old cousin is running for parliamentarian of her school’s student council. (There are only four weeks left of school, but they do the elections for the next school year at the end of the current school year.) Since I... Continue reading →

Girlfriend soundtrack

by Shana Norris // May 14, 2006 // Comments off

I love creating soundtracks for the books I’m writing. It’s a lot of fun picking out the perfect songs to accompany each moment of the story. And yes, I do sometimes have these songs playing while I write to keep... Continue reading →