What's Up Wednesday

What's Up Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jaime Morrow and Erin Funk.  Head over to Jaime's page for links to find out what's up with everyone else. Here's What's Up with me.
What I'm Reading
This week I read Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. It's a cute contemporary YA romance, that will probably be reclassified as NA sometime in the future once that book classification becomes more solidified, since the story features college students not HS students.

I liked this book a lot, but I'm not sure how well I would like these characters if I knew them in real life. The main character is "big in the fandom". She writes fanfiction and has tens of thousands of followers reading her stuff. I know fanfiction exists, but I sincerely hope there aren't any fanfiction writers with that many followers.

Maybe it's because I'm not a super-fan, or anything. But the entire idea of fanfiction has always annoyed me. If someone is as good of a writer as Cath (MC in story) she should write her own stories, not rewrite someone else's.

Rainbow Rowell did write her own story, about a super-fan. And it's very cute story, which I enjoyed reading. 
What I'm Writing
I didn't get much writing done this week, and expect to get even less done next week. Whoever picked November for National Novel Writing Month, clearly doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving the way my family does. Real life has officially taken over.
What Inspires Me Right Now


I've been mentoring at-risk-youth for about six years. I'm currently working with three different teen girls, each of whom I see once a week. Last week, one of them won free tickets to the Summer Set and 3Oh!3 concert on the radio. Her parents didn't want to take her, and they didn't want to let her go alone, so my chaperoning skills were volunteered. I genuinely care about all three of my little twerps and always enjoy the time I spend with them. But standing in a mosh-pit surrounded by fourteen-year-old fangirls made the YA author in me think, this is really great research. 
What Else I've Been Up To
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. There is something about a holiday dedicated to the celebration of gluttony that speaks to me. As a result, in the Scott household, Thanksgiving is the biggest holiday of the year. Over the weekend, we shampooed all the carpets in preparation for the upcoming festivities. The first of the out of town guests arrived on Monday. More will be coming later in the week. Plus tomorrow night, every relative I have in the greater Portland area will descend upon my house ready to eat.

So I'm cooking. And eating. And entertaining out of town guests. It's great, I love Thanksgiving. But I'm not getting any writing done.
So What's Up With You?