Beginnings

My name is Jennifer, and I am a Crazy Writer. I have Crazy Writer Desk to prove it. I was a participant in Nanowrimo last year, and one day last month, I decided to keep on slogging through and actually finish the damn thing.

Since I only get to go to write-ins once a month with people who actually understand what it is to get in The Zone, to want to slap or hug a character, to apologize to a character for putting them through so much shit, I decided to blag my novel-related rants, raves, successes, writing goals, and character-related drama.

Expect lots of cursing and drunk posting.

My novel is about a young woman called Kate growing up in the late 60s, who wants nothing more than to go to college, but her parents think that higher education is wasted on a girl who will just get married anyway. Lucky for Kate, her older brother Andrew thinks otherwise, and so does Jack Hoffman, an old professor of his. Before he goes off to war, Andrew sends his sister to Chicago to live with Jack Hoffman and his family, which has been torn to shreds by the war. She falls in love with the professor's son Ben, a radical socialist and pacifist. Trouble starts brewing after the Summer of Love and Kate is faced with a decision she never thought she would have to make.