I’m an adult! Really!
18 June 2009
Housekeeping notes first – my Facebook fan page is up and going, so if you’re on Facebook you can become my fan here.
I get a little weirded out doing promotional things like creating fan pages or writing blurbs. Maybe it’s talking about myself in third person? (Stephanie’s debut novel Me, Just Different will be available in stores July 1st…) But at any rate, check out my self-created fan page.
This morning I spent part of my morning chasing McKenna around the house with her Fischer-Price phone and the other part in “Media Training” where I learned how to look like I know what I’m doing in interviews. This is one of the reasons I have a hard time taking myself seriously as a professional, and why I’m a little paranoid about others taking me seriously as well. One minute I’m singing the ABCs and saying things like, “Tell your boo-boo bye-bye and let’s go play.” The next I’m talking about book signings and other grown-up, professional things. Maybe this is why I continue to love writing for teenagers? Because most of the time I’m still not very sure how this adult thing works.
Like today I decided it might be time that I learn how to fix my hair. I’m twenty-five years old, and I still have no idea what I’m doing. I have several variations—straight/curly, and down/up. In general, I feel like I’m not in control of my hair, that in controls me. Ten years ago, I thought I would have all this worked out by now. I also thought I would know how to dress and feel comfortable disagreeing with people.
Maybe in another ten years I’ll feel somewhat like an adult. But probably not.
At least you don’t have to say, “I want to be a writer when I grow up” anymore;-)
Posted by Roseanna on 21 June 2009