February Writing Challenge — Week 3
A week of frustration
Days 13 & 14
No writing. It just… slipped away, as writing time will do if you let it. I’m disappointed since I wanted, at least, to write every day of this challenge. And I have no good excuse. Yes, I still did my Zoom hour in the morning — but I was doing other things during that time. I need to keep that time sacred for writing. Remember Mel Robbins’ 5 Second Rule: 5–4–3–2–1-WRITE.
Days 15 & 16
Progress! A tiny bit. Rethinking, reshaping. Ruby has to come to terms with her actions, and confess to something bad she’s done — stealing a an environmental report. Is it a good idea to put such moral ambiguity into a Middle Grade novel? I think so. Adults sometimes mistakenly think kids shouldn’t be exposed to things like moral dilemmas, but the reality, if we think back to childhood, is that we had moral dilemmas all the time, even if we didn’t consciously call them that. And I think one of the great things that fiction can do is allow us to walk in someone else’s shoes and ask ourselves what we would do in the same situation. This is especially true for kids, who are still learning about the world and their agency in it.
