New Creative Writing Class

I'm back at THE BYU!

This semester I'm taking another creative writing class. My last one I took here was less than impressive.

BUT it is done and I am excited for this one. It is Writing for Children and Adolescents. At first I thought it would be a picture book class (which I would absolutely adore), but it is going to be equally as well. We are writing novels for Middle Readers and Young Adults.

To be honest, I have started a couple of novels in the past, but I didn't take them very seriously. Even if I had, I'm afraid they...... let's just say they weren't very original.

This one I am excited about. I'm especially excited because my professor Carol Lynch Williams has published books and knows what she is talking about. (Check out her blog at throwingupwords.wordpress.com, she is wonderful) In this class I know that I am going to have the guidance to help me do what I've always loved doing.

Anyways. I'm just excited to actually be writing. (Although a novel is looming idea). I am excited. I already have two chapters mostly written. I'm nervous and I want it to be perfect, but I'm re-learning that it's okay to not write perfectly at fist. I say re-learning because the creative writing class in high school really liberated my writing, and then research papers as a senior and now in college kind of made me hate editing with a mighty passion.... again.

Hopefully I'll post some chapters as I go along. Give some sneak peaks or whatever. Hey, one day this novel might be a NYT bestseller... Well maybe the NEXT novel I write. Who knows. I don't care either way as long as I get to write.