A New Beginning

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you'd hoped.  You put an entire year into a project and a co-author, and it morphs into something as messy as the cat puke I cleaned up this morning.  So I began this writing blog to start fresh and to keep me accountable for my writing and my sanity.  I'm currently in the process of re-evaluating what I truly want to write.  Do I want to continue writing YA?  I'm thinking no.  I like to write "sweetheart" YA, something that pales in comparison to the edgy YA teens are in demand for.  And if teens don't want it, agents don't want it.  That leaves me with MG or adult.  My voice has always been on the young side and I've actually started an MG paranormal.  Problem is, I haven't read much MG.  Don't kill me, but I tried reading Harry Potter and I couldn't get past the first few pages.  It just didn't hold my interest.  And I wasn't the only one.  My son was looking at me glassy-eyed too.  So how well can you write a genre you haven't read much of?  Then there's adult...  I already have a couple adult paranormals under my belt, and I'm working on a third, but I'm almost not mature enough to do a bang-up job in this genre.  Am I the only one who feels like a 14-year old in a 34-year old body? 

I guess I'm just going to take it one day at a time.  Work on both and see which I think about the most on my commutes back and forth to work and at night while I'm lying in bed, my brain set in overdrive.  How did you decide "what" to write?  Do you write YA because you have teens in the house?  Do you write adult because that's what you enjoy to read?  Or do you write MG and picture books because you're an elementary school teacher and surrounded by kids all day?  Ha!  That's another genre I've tried...picture books.  I've got four of them just sitting on my hard drive.  I wonder if there's an agent out there who'd take on such a confused *cough* multi-talented client like me?