ARG! I gotta get to work (that is, my day job!)

2500+ words total now.

Most of what I wrote today was important, but will most likely be trashed. I was struggling with the age of my main character. Nine is too young, I am sick of stories about 13 year olds, and 17 seems too old... I realized that the reason most stories are written with protags at puberty is because at that time, besides being totally messed up by hormones, people haven't been given the rights to make their own choices yet. By age 16 or 17, they have pretty much made up their minds (even if they don't realize it) about what they want to do and what they believe in. So I ended up going with the older age. Plus I want her to have a romance, and 13-year-olds getting it on is just icky.