Wondering what our daughter is planning.

[yendi]

Elayna is many things. But subtle has never been her strong suit. When she bought me a jellybean machine for my birthday a few years ago, she kept telling me that she couldn't tell me what it was (no, I wasn't asking!), but that she hoped I liked jellybeans. Yeah. That's her idea of subtle.

So I'm curious, because after reading a few more pages in her current book last night (The School Story by Andrew Clements), she told me that she had a great plan. But she couldn't tell me or Mommy, ever.

Well, the thing is, I know what the big secret in the book is (no spoilers, since it's on the cover), and it's that the main character writes a book and then gets it sold to her editor mother under a pen name. Since neither shadesong nor I are editors (we're just lowly writers), I'm not sure what she has in mind. I'm guessing it's to write a book and sell it, but I'm not sure why she feels she couldn't tell us. I suspect that when she finishes the book (and the mother finds out who wrote the book -- not a spoiler, since I'm just guessing here), she'll decide to tell us. :-)