I have always had one very crucial weakness to my writing: I love beginnings. I love writing beginnings, I love reading beginnings, and sometimes a beginning is all I need to satisfy me. That’s not always true, of course. And there is nothing better than I book you can finish, close up, and say, “Wow, [...]
Title: Hex Hall Author: Rachel Hawkins Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children Edition: Library Binding Year: 2010 Sophie knew she was a witch. Sophie also knew she was not supposed to use her powers around humans, but that didn’t stop her. After a love potion goes terribly wrong, she is sent to Hecate Hall, a sort [...]
Title: The Squad: Perfect Cover Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Edition: Mass Market Year: 2008 Toby Klein, a sophomore computer hacking genius, gets drafted to the cheerleading squad against her wishes. Once accepted, she learns that their high school squad is actually full of super geniuses and an official branch of the CIA. Their [...]
Title: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned Author: Michael J. Fox Publisher: Hyperion Audio Books Edition: Audible Audio Year: 2010 Yes, ladies and gentleman, I listened to a book that was not fiction. And Ilistened to a non-fiction book that was not about writing. No, [...]
As I mentioned briefly in my Star Wars post a couple of weeks ago, I missed the explosion. I entered my first day of high school to seemingly half the student body and my English teacher (Ms. POTTER) cracking jokes about this Harry Potter kid. I seriously thought this was just some kid that I [...]
Until the middle of the last week, I was on a great writing kick. I was doing a lot of writing, and enjoying it. The words were flowing easily, the pieces I had not yet figured out were coming into place, and the project that had seemed daunting and had worried me that I’d bitten [...]
If you remember, when I started this blog, I tried to do a “Blog of the Week” review every Friday. That got boring very quickly. I thought a weekly piece of my inspirations would be more fun, write on the books and movies that as soon as I finished them, I wanted to write, draw, [...]
Feedback was a new experience for me when I started going to my writing group. My creative writing classes weren’t at a point where we’d done critiquing yet. I’ve never been very good at taking critiquing advice with a single grain of salt. This is most likely related to my problem of over-salting food when [...]
And I don’t mean in the Nike slogan sort of way. Well, maybe I do mean in the Nike slogan sort of way. This summer has been a real learning experience for me about how and why I write. I started the summer wondering if I even liked writing. What made me choose to get [...]
Title: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Author: Stephen King Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Edition: Audible Audio Year: 2000 I debated, whether this was going to be a real review or only personal thoughts on the book. I opted to do both. I cannot look at this book as a reader; the reader [...]
