I am. Really. I wasn’t always this way. Until my early teen years, I was convinced I was a tomboy. All I thought about was riding my bike with the neighborhood guys. I guess I almost always enjoy the company of guys over girls. They are easier to be around. Less judgmental and more funny (when they aren’t trying to hump you). Being dirty and smelly from climbing around the Amarillo sewer drains under the town never really bothered me. I wore jeans everyday and had my ratty perm (thanks Dad) …

Today was kind of a breakthrough writing day for me. Mentally had some interesting new character developments (part of the planning), I got some specific research done on underground creatures AND I wrote the first thing that made me cry. I had to write a really sad scene and I have been kind of putting it off. I wrote it pretty quick since I had it all worked out already, but when I got to the middle of it, I just started crying. It’s funny, because someone else will probably …