All At Once

I am stressed, overwhelmed, excited and sad all at once. Gugh.

I'm on my way to Cedar Falls, IA this weekend to be in a friend's wedding. We met in fifth grade and bonded over Magic Attic dolls, our mutual love of history, Bugels, movies that made us cry, and books. We started writing a novel together in seventh grade and continue to work on it when we get together. I think the working title is Shades of Red and it is a historical fiction novel set in the 1940's about a boy who runs away from home, falls in love, goes to war, and everything in between. It's funny how characters we created so many years ago still seem so real to me today - we talk about them as if they are old friends.

I won't be writing much this weekend or in the next few days, but I will when I can.

It's going to be hard to say goodbye but I know good things are yet to come.