G Younger: Blog

I've always been a big fan of the Do Over story. This is my second attempt with this story. The first attempt I sent out to a group of my readers because I wanted to see if I was on track. Thank goodness I did, because I think I broke ever rule and in their opinion a half finished first book.

I took their notes and rewrote Getting it Wrong. This will be the first in a trilogy - Getting it Done and Getting it Right.

I wrote this while I took a break from Stupid Boy. I also wrote Little Tony and Pia while I got my head back into SB. I've started two other books. One is the sword and sorcerer fantasy world. Between that and science fiction that was about all I read when I was younger. In the next week or so I will offer a look at the beginning and see if I am on the right track - much like I did with Getting it Wrong.

The other book I tried to pawn off the idea on a couple of authors, but they chickened out. The premise is a boy has an evil sister who torments him. He finally has enough and decides to sell her on Craigslist. You can sell everything on Craigslist - Right? There are two ways this could go - very dark or funny. I picked funny and I think you will like it. It is bringing out my inner Mark Twain. Small town likable boy who seems to get himself into trouble.

So before I go off on a tangent about how my job and family is more important that writing... lets get back on track.

Check out Getting it Wrong on Saturday.

G Younger

Tomorrow will end Sophomore Year. Laz was so concerned about internet traffic to find out how the Tami and David saga would end he has warned everyone that the site might crash tomorrow. How he knows the exact time is a mystery to me.

I just finished Chapter 13 of Junior Year, so we are hard at work on it. The plan is for it to be ready by the end of summer.

I have a new book coming out starting next Saturday called Getting it Wrong. It is a Do Over book and the first part of a trilogy. I floated an initial version to some of my readers and received A LOT of feedback. So I went back and rewrote it. I'm told it is much better, so I'm hopeful you will all enjoy it.

Thanks
G Younger

David has become a little bit of a adrenaline junkie. I'm looking for ideas of things he might do. Think in terms of a bucket list of activities you would want to do if you were 17. Things like skydiving, jet skiing, kart racing, or snowboarding. If he might die doing it - even better!

Thanks in advance.

G Younger

I had work done on my computer and we recovered a partial Cast document for Sophomore Year. It has about 90% of the characters so I decided I should put it up on SOL to assist the reader in figuring out who is who.

Received an email from one of my readers that I thought might be a good blog entry.

Any updates in the pipeline? Getting anxious.

Seems there are a few changes or enhancements in this chapter-at-a-time release that were missing in the Stupid Boy - Sophomore Year preview edition. Good surprises.

Keep up the great work!

I go through each chapter before I post it and make updates. My editors hate it because that is where 99% of the mistakes make it onto SOL. The thing is I wrote it several months ago and find things I wished I had done better...

Pipeline. I have written three chapters of Stupid Boy - Junior Year. I sent out the original draft of Getting it Wrong (the Do Over story) to some of the people who purchased Sophomore Year and received a lot of feedback. I rewrote quite a bit of it.

BlackIrish, my lead editor, has read through the first few chapters and said he felt my edits in first couple of chapters really changed the story. It got him thinking very differently about character and his situation... Him liking it is a big deal for me ... tells me I may have something worth reading. I wrote an additional three chapters to work out a better ending to Book 1. Book 2 is started and I just completed the chapter layouts.

Little Tony, my mob story, I've written a couple of chapters for the next book which will feature his sister Pia. I shelved this for now as I am focusing on the Do Over story.

The Third Son, sword and sorcery story, I was originally planning on that being my next book. I had it laid out and then realized that wasn't the book I wanted to write. I've been working it out in my head though and I think I have a much better idea. Of course it went from a quick novel length book to potentially 10+ 50K+ word shorter stories.

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G Younger