Showing posts with label Random. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Random. Show all posts

Monday, April 30, 2012

The Best Three Minutes You'll Ever Spend Learning About Writing

Have you floundered your way through a first draft? Shuffled through critiques? Flailed in distress at all the work you had to do? Have you reached such limits of despair your limbs spasmed with fatigue?

It's important for you to know: You are not alone. These people know how you feel.



I think we can agree, the takeaway here is that no matter how sad your skirt, no matter how gender-confusing your haircut, no matter how many surgeries you had to remove the polyester burns -- one day your moment in the spotlight will arrive.

Make sure you don't wish it hadn't.

Your Turn: Do you know the Awkward Turtle? Do you use it? Then join me in 'turtling' that couple who hump across the stage together in the middle of this fiasco. TOMORROW: David Hasselhoff's master class in being... well, you decide:

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

What Are You Reading Right Now?

I'm headed off on vacation next week (though I'll be continuing the self-editing series while I'm gone) and I haev some book vouchers so I'm thinking it's time to pick up a couple Something News to read while I'm gone.

So what are you reading? What would you recommend?

I tend to stick pretty close to the YA frame since that's what I write, but I will take a stab at anything if it looks good. Here are some of my favorites...

Favorite books I've read in the last year:

- Delirium, by Lauren Oliver (YA Dystopian)
- So Shelly, by Ty Roth (YA Contemporary)
- The Help, by Kathryn Stockett (Historical)
- The Pact, by Jodi Picoult (YA / Adult Contemporary)
- Divergent, by Veronica Roth (YA Dystopian)




Favorite books I've read ever:

- Playing the Jack, by Mary Brown (Historical)
- Watership Down, by Richard Adams (Fantasy)
- Speak, by Laurie Halse-Anderson (YA Contemporary)
- Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan (High Fantasy)
- Twilight (YA Urban Fantasy)
- The Time Traveller's Wife (Adult Urban Fantasy)


Your Turn: What are your favorites from the last year / all time? If you had to choose one, what would you recommend? What should I READ?