The A-Z Bookbag: D is for 100 Days of Solitude

Yeah, I cheated a little with this one. But there aren’t numbers in the alphabet so I figured I could get away with it. Our Bookbag book that starts with D but not really is 100 Days of Solitude by Daphne Kapsali. This wonderful book is a memoir, wherein Kapsali records her experiences each day…

The A-Z Bookbag: C is for Crow Vector

The C title I chose for the Bookbag is my most recent read, in that I’m not technically finished reading it. My Kindle says I’m 87% finished and OH GOD HOW DOES IT END?? HOW?? Sorry. I’ll pull myself together. The next book in the Bookbag is Crow Vector by Lou Cadle. Crow Vector is a…

The A-Z Bookbag: B is for Blamed

Welcome to Day 2 of our Bookbag tour, which brings us to Blamed by Dana Griffin. As you may have discerned from the cover, Blamed is an airline thriller. It stars Bill Kurz, a veteran airline pilot who begins his story in the cockpit of his crashed airplane. The crushing pain radiating up from my…

The A-Z Bookbag: A is for Atlanta Burns

Welcome to Day 1 of the A-Z Bookbag, where I’ll spend the month of April discussing books I’ve read and enjoyed. If you’ve read the book, add your thoughts in the comments. If you haven’t and it looks interesting, add it to your TBR pile (what’s one more book, right?). Clicking the linked title will…

The Imagination Of Story

Yesterday, as I sat down to write some brilliant words in my WIP, I did what any writer does before starting. I got onto Facebook. For research. I swear. Okay, maybe not, but I did see a couple of posts that inspired the words you’re reading now, so it wasn’t all a waste of time.…

Is There Too Much Apologizing Going On?

There’s an interesting phenomenon in the blogospere and in social media. It looks something like this: “I’m sorry I haven’t posted in a while.” “I’m sorry for posting so often.” “I apologize for the political post.” “Sorry for all the book posts.” And on and on and on. I noticed the first example in blogs…

The Perk of Predictability in Stories

Yesterday, I read a well-known book with my first-grade group called Is Your Mama a Llama? It’s about a llama looking for others like him, who would have a llama for a mama, told in a fun and predictable rhyming pattern. “Is your mama a llama?” I asked my fried Dave. “No she is not,” is…

A Moment of Self-Plagiarization

Can a writer plagiarize their own work? Because I kinda managed to do that. It wasn’t a whole story or a premise or a character. It was a short setting description. I knew the moment I wrote it in my current work-in-progress that I’d written it before. It was a favorite line. Seeing as I…