Hannah Moskowitz's Blog, page 24

I have no willpower

Aaaaand here's what I started tonight.

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SOPRANO: Etta is a not-chubby-just-curvy racial minority chirping her way through the high notes, despite her maturing voice trying to push her down an octave. She sweats too much, laughs too much, and has a penchant for parties and Oliver Hayes. Too bad he’s gayer than a Liza Minnelli playlist.

ALTO: Bianca isn’t ambitious, per se…she just knows her strengths. And her main strength happens to be that she’s the best damn singer in the chorus, and her direc

I can't tell if I'm moving quickly or not at all

I thought of a new idea that I can't wait to write. Problem? I'm still in the middle of this manuscript I've been trying to finish for the past two years...I'm NOT going to abandon it again.

But damn it, I want to write this new one...

How do you stay on task when something else is calling you?

(new book is going to be about a chorus, hence the "I want to be a singer" tag).[image error]

It's been awhile...

...and Baby Ghost has been long abandoned in favor of an old, previously abandoned manuscript! I'm about 51,000 words into it thus far.

Today is my eighteenth birthday! I'm a teenage writer no longer.[image error]

Baby Ghost

Baby Ghost is a holiday, but not like Christmas or New Year’s. It’s more like President’s Day, or Martin Luther King. The days you have because someone died. Because maybe you’d forget exactly when they died it if not for the holiday. The holidays don’t give you a chance to forget.

Baby Ghost keeps on going and I wonder when it will end. It’s still going on the day I go back to school. I think it’s on something like it’s second week now. I can’t say Happy Baby Ghost to anyone because no one woul

Oh dear Lord

I'm writing again.

Two thousand words in so far. It's called Baby Ghost.

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Playing the Waiting Game

Still not writing, but I'm totally riding the publishing pony again. Not much is happening on the BREAK front--since the ARCs came in, everything's been pretty quiet. I've been getting a lot of links from my publisher about publicity and such. I'd say I'm pretty accessible on the web, since I never leave my computer...

Anyway, right now I have three books on submission--two to my editor at Simon Pulse, and one to seven other houses that Simon Pulse already decided wasn't right for them. This is a

Pushing Through

I've decided to take somewhat of a writing haitus. I'm definitely not planning for this to be anything permament. I just had a hard time finishing the last book--not in the sense that it didn't go well, or I don't think I did it justice, or that I'm not proud of it, but in the sense that I didn't really enjoy it. I like the finished product a lot, actually. But getting there wasn't fun.

I do wonder if it's school doing this to me...we're doing a lot of analytical papers right now, formal writing

My glamorous glamorous life

Hi! Thanks for visiting my page.

While some interesting writing-related things occurred in my life today--I received an Advance Review Copy of BREAK, and, oh my God, my book is a book, and I'm on page 121 of my current project--right now I'm being absorbed by another, very real part of my life. In fact, he is staring at me from the back of another book as we speak. He's black and white, he's grainy, yes, ladies and gentlemen--he's George Orwell.

--Reeeeead me, Hannah...--

But I find you hideously boring.

1984 is sitting on the bed beside me. Right next to Break. It's like the mean older brother.--Ha ha, this is what a reaaaaal book looks like.--

--Reeeeead me, Hannah...you'll fail the teeeeeest, Hannah...--

I wonder if anyone will ever be assigned my book for a class. I wonder if they'll dread reading it.

I should write a disclaimer for the front--IF SOMEONE IS MAKING YOU READ THIS AGAINST YOUR OWN VOLITION, CALL ME IMMEDIATELY.

I WILL SAVE YOU.

I AM NOT GEORGE ORWELL.


Get more on Hannah Moskowitz at SimonandSchuster.com

What is Break about?

Well, that's an excellent question!

Let's see what different sources have to say.

My query letter--complete with original title!:


Nothing sucks for seventeen-year-old Jonah McNab. Life's perfect. And he's bored out of his freaking mind--tired of being healthy, comfortable, and stagnant. How is his upper-middle-class lifestyle training him to be a better person? Unlike his anaphylaxis-prone brother, who gets to fight death on a regular basis, Jonah isn't evolving. He's not getting stronger. If he wa

In Which I Set a Horrible Example

So the WIP I posted the beginning of in the last post is coming along swimmingly. I'm about 11k words in, and I even have a plot (!!) and an inkling of an ending. Oh, and I have a working title--The Support Group. Not as interesting as any of the suggestions (and thank you so much for them) but it has the convenient quality of actually relating to the book (not your fault, helpful commenters; you had no idea what the book was about.)

So you'll notice I've written over 10,000 words in less than a