Checking In
Nothing new to report with my "ultraviolent teenagers" WIP. I was sidetracked this pass week with another finished manuscript--trying to get it ready for querying--and personal stuff. Blah, actual life. But! My research books came Friday, so I am hoping to dive back into the psyche of teenagers.
Those interested, here are the books which will pull everything together. I think...
(L-R: Battle Royale by Koushun Takami,
The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn,
and Children Who Kill by Carol Ann Davis)
(L-R: Inside the Mind of a Teen Killer by Phil Chalmers
and Columbine by Dave Cullen)
I swear they will all fit in...somehow. *crosses fingers* Also, I am really, really surprised the Book Police didn't show up on my doorstop and ask why I bought all these books on school shooters. ("No, officer, I'm not going to go to a school with guns. I'm writing a book where teenagers go postal. ... No, I don't have a literary agent...No, publishing doesn't quite work like that...Yes, officer, I understand. I will refrain from ordering any more teen rampage books. ... No, there are no sparkly vampires in my story. Those aren't even vampires...")
Battle Royale is the one giving me the sweats. (608 pages?! And the print is tiny!) It may be one I put on hold until after WIP is written, just because I cannot read and write at the same time. I either need MY thoughts floating around in my head, or someone else's. My brain is not that advance of a computer where I can process multiple things at once.
I think I'll start "smallest" (Phil Chalmers' Inside the Mind of a Teen Killer) and work to largest (Battle Royale, gulp!). I have one more book on my to-read list; but I'm going to wait until the paperback. Three books on school shooters should be enough, me thinks. Four might be pushing it where Officer Book Police shows up at my door.
Those interested, here are the books which will pull everything together. I think...
(L-R: Battle Royale by Koushun Takami,
The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn,
and Children Who Kill by Carol Ann Davis)
(L-R: Inside the Mind of a Teen Killer by Phil Chalmers
and Columbine by Dave Cullen)
I swear they will all fit in...somehow. *crosses fingers* Also, I am really, really surprised the Book Police didn't show up on my doorstop and ask why I bought all these books on school shooters. ("No, officer, I'm not going to go to a school with guns. I'm writing a book where teenagers go postal. ... No, I don't have a literary agent...No, publishing doesn't quite work like that...Yes, officer, I understand. I will refrain from ordering any more teen rampage books. ... No, there are no sparkly vampires in my story. Those aren't even vampires...")
Battle Royale is the one giving me the sweats. (608 pages?! And the print is tiny!) It may be one I put on hold until after WIP is written, just because I cannot read and write at the same time. I either need MY thoughts floating around in my head, or someone else's. My brain is not that advance of a computer where I can process multiple things at once.
I think I'll start "smallest" (Phil Chalmers' Inside the Mind of a Teen Killer) and work to largest (Battle Royale, gulp!). I have one more book on my to-read list; but I'm going to wait until the paperback. Three books on school shooters should be enough, me thinks. Four might be pushing it where Officer Book Police shows up at my door.