You can never have too much dinner

O.K., you can have too much dinner, but my point is I'm having dinner tonight and I am very excited about it. A friend of mine pitched a collaborative writing project to me and I was sold from sentence one. Tonight is our first meeting--and we're going to have dinner. I wish I could say more, but we're keeping fairly quiet about it until we have a solid draft and talk to an agent.

I have been looking to do something different since September--when my novel was conceptually done (I've got a couple more drafts to go, but it will mostly be cutting and transitions). I have been adrift: I already know the next four novels I want to write, but before I commit to another piece that's going to take two or three years I want to get a few other things written. And I have felt I needed a collaborative project. But who to write with? I knew I wanted to do something different, but what? Now I know.

I am currently writing a memoir with my sister, which I expect to work pretty heavily on into July. This new thing is something I can do at the same time.