Death and Reality TV

/ August 25, 2010

Every Wednesday, YA Highway asks their readership a simple question to answer on your blog. Once you answer, you your link in the comments for other readers to hop on board. This is Road Trip Wednesday. Today’s Question: How would you impress (or not impress) the Hunger Games judges? Confession: I haven’t read The Hunger Games. This being said, I

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Four Vamps and a Gunslinger

/ August 18, 2010

Every Wednesday, YA Highway asks their readership a simple question to answer on your blog. Once you answer, you your link in the comments for other readers to hop on board. This is Road Trip Wednesday. Today’s question: What book ending would you rewrite and why? Argh… We’ve all had the experience of reading something that keeps us up for

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Bipolarity Writing?

/ July 16, 2010

So a couple of days ago on Twitter, everyone was talking about who they write like. You go to a website, paste in some text, and poof! Magic. it gave me a much needed 3 second RFP hell break, so even better, right? I plugged in the first scene of FALLING TO NORMAL, which if you’re just tuning in, should

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Remorse, or What Was I Thinking?

/ June 28, 2010

Saturday I went shopping with a friend. I ordered lobster mac and cheese because it just sounded awesome. A while later, we split an ice cream injected cupcake. At the time, I just went with it because in true Fat Kid Logic fashion, lunch with a bestie reduces your calorie count and the shared dessert had no calories at all.

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Shakespeare for the Masses

/ April 27, 2010

I went through a brief phase studying Shakespeare. This also tied in with my ‘I can act’ phase. (Hey, college is about experimentation.) Most of the time, I faked my way through. The stories in Shakespeare are great, but the language is a terrible barrier to that world. In college, the director always ‘updated’ whatever Shakespeare play we were doing

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