Few days, no blog.

Mainly because my son's been sick (the doctor said it's a cold and he's basically turned it into manflu, but I'm still worried it might be chicken pox), but also because I got freaking inspired the other night and spent ages typing (and mother goes 'I don't know what you can spend so much time typing about' - uhhhhh, normally teenage books are on average 90,000 words. I've only got 85,000 so far of this book. Clearly, I'm spending that typing right now) and now I'm getting excited about the end of Budding ... but also worried I'm rushing the ending like I did in this chapter in Uprooted ... maybe that's just my thing, who knows?

That's not to say I haven't been reading. I read that Jacqueline Wilson book, Little Darlings (and oh my gosh, I know someone who's like Destiny's mother. Without naming names ... Destiny's mum's convinced her daughter is the love child of this musician and basically trespasses his house trying to get him to see Destiny ... and then she gets all sick. Certain people reading will know exactly who I'm talking about); I read this Twilight spoof called New Moan (okay, I'm up to chapter 10, and so far it's stuck closer to the storyline than Nightlight did, although I don't get why Winnie-The-Pooh got involved as a drug dealer in it) and I've started The Portrait Of Dorian Gray, since it was the shortest of the top 50 list I picked up (I was in an odd mood). I might be run off my feet, but there's always time for a book.

Speaking of which, I just pulled something in my foot. It freaking hurts. Got to hop and get a *very* late macaroni cheese dinner. Yay. I don't think.

Sorry this has been so short. I want to carry on typing Budding as I eat, lol. Discussion point: The name 'Lambrini' for a protagonist (girl) - too much? I keep debating this ... I mean, I like it atm and for various reasons I like the connotations made by the name, but I am worried about how it would be recieved by literary agents/editors. Don't want to get laughed out of a chance ...