This week’s YA Highway Road Trip Wednesday asks bloggers to share their favorite posts from their own blogs. For some this might be like trying to choose their favorite children. But not me. I’ve written some truly embarrassing blog posts and would be more than happy for BPS (Blogging Protective Services) to come and take them away. Nevertheless, I have written a few I don’t mind having my name attached to. So here are a few of my favorites. I hope you enjoy them too.
Most Popular:
Most Commented:
Most FUN!:
Most Thoughtful:
YA Specific:
Road Trip Wednesdays:
Poetic (aka actual poems):
And of course since this is for YA Highway I have to pimp my very own YA Highway post from back in the wee early days of the “Highway” when the uber-thoughtful Kirsten Hubbard invited me to share a guest post because I’d played so nicely with the other bloggers. :)
This week’s YA Highway Wednesday Road Trip is celebrating the limerick in honor or St. Patrick’s Day. Followers were asked to write limericks for their favorite book and/or WIP (work-in-progress). Several months ago the folks a YA Highway issued a similar invitation to write haiku. I had fun writing for that one so I thought I’d join in this week too.
As with my haiku, I’ve written one limerick for my current WIP and another limerick for the entire series for which it’s a part.
My current WIP:
Raven Academy (Book 1)
Connor thinks it’s a school just the same
as all others with different names,
but it’s part of a plan
in which he’ll have a hand
in revealing what pow’r has it claimed.
The Citadel of Kidrodell (the series)
Kidrodell is a land out of time
and the home for a new kind of crime
when the good at first sought
by its exiles is fraught
will the threads of Earth’s history unwind?
Finally, I’ve taken the easy way out of deciding what other books to “limericize” by simply choosing one I most recently finished and which I thoroughly enjoyed.
BONESHAKER (by Cherie Priest)
Briar Wilkes and her son are estranged
by Leviticus’ deed, unexplained.
Now Seattle’s walled tight,
full of zombies and Blight,
and Steampunk will forever be changed!
This week’s YA Highway Wednesday Road Trip is about Favorite Helpful Sites for writers. I’ve decided to play along this week and share a tip I picked up from my day job where part of my time is spent supporting and configuring information search tools. Three simple words . . .
USE. GOOGLE. READER.
I know many writers already use Google Reader as the portal for their many blog subscriptions. It’s a great way for the information you want to come to you (Yay RSS!) so you don’t have to go looking for it. (Of course this works for anyone, not just writers.)
But did you know you can use Google Reader as your own personalized search engine? . . . Continue Reading
This week’s YA Highway – Road Trip Wednesday is about The Best Book No One’s Ever Heard Of. I’m a bit late, but after commenting on the site I decided to post this to my blog too.
I could probably recommend plenty, but the one I went with is Wisdom Hunter by Randall Arthur. I chose this one because I thought I remembered it going out of print, but it is listed right now on Amazon and has apparently gone through two covers since I read it on its first publication. So, it’s not so likely no one’s ever heard of it. Nevertheless, here are my thoughts.
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I read Wisdom Hunter more than 15 years ago, but I still remember how much it impacted me.
It was recommended to me by a good friend and so I decided to read it sight unseen. I don’t like movie trailers (and other spoilers) so I value the recommendation of someone I trust over product marketers trying to convince me of what I’ll like. And I loved it.
This is a story about journey.
It opens with a pregnant young woman, disowned by her father, a conservative, legalistic pastor and a real a$$hole – Jason Faircloth. She tragically dies in childbirth in a traffic jam, but her baby girl survives and is raised the baby’s father (I can’t recall if the two were married), who subsequently takes the baby and moves away. Jason is completely unaware this has happened.
The main character is . . . Continue Reading
I freely admit that I am terrible at remembering many of the details of my own childhood. There are reasons for this which continue to manifest themselves in the fiction and poetry I write. Nevertheless, I DO recall my earliest writing memories.
It was back in the early 1980’s when I middle school and the Halloween, Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street slasher-style movies series were just gaining in popularity. . . . Continue Reading
(reposted from my private blog: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 – In response to The Aliens are Out to Get You!! from the YA highway on November 13th, 2009.)
After seeing a large bird circling over my old house last night, . . . Continue Reading
Wednesdays mean ‘Roadtrip’ at YA Highway. While the constraints of corporate life have prevented me very much lunchtime writing this week, I thought I’d squeeze in this quick post before heading into the weekend.
Click here to read this week’s YA Highway’s Roadtrip Wednesday post.
Let me begin by saying ‘My thoughts exactly!’ in response to a comment from Michelle Schusterman (YA Highway member) that it might be better to ask “how does your genre choose you?”
I’ve always felt that *trying* to write into a particular genre was a little like trying to write into a particular market. . . . Continue Reading
The writing folks at YA Highway have issued an invitation on their blog to turn your writing work-in-progress into a Haiku. This was too much fun to resist (and who would want to?). So here is mine! Well, actually two of mine. Since I am working on a series I’ve written one about the first book and one about the series as a whole.
Let me know what you think!
Book 1: Raven Academy
Boy finds he’s a part
of a world outside of time
and trouble’s brewing.
Citadel of Kidrodell
A world outside time,
Improving off our mistakes,
’Laws of Hist’ry’ win?
You can also follow my Kidrodell posts to read more about this specific WIP or visit the about page of the Kidrodell website (also a work-in-progress) to see the site which will eventually host the series!
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