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Our weekly Road Trip Wednesday series invites you to answer a reading or writing-related question. Answer this post, or link to your answer elsewhere on our main page, where you can see how others answered, too!
Today’s Road Trip Wednesday asks: What was the best book you read in May?
“WILD AWAKE was born from those snakes and mice and power outages, from those nights when you sleep in the Wal-Mart parking lot, days when you brush your teeth at the library, and weeks when the only other living creature you see is a certain bobcat bounding across the snow outside your cabin door. I’m grateful for the shelter I’ve been given, and for the shelter that continues to present itself in the unlikeliest places.”
Hilary T. Smith | via Doom Shack, Spaceship, Treehouse, Boat: Hilary T. Smith’s Guide to Living Free or Cheap When You Are Writing a Novel on YA Highway
“I read YA.”
Another Wednesday, another Road Trip! To answer this week’s, respond to this post or answer on your own blog and leave the link in comments at our post. Then you can see how everyone else answered!
This week we want to know: Conference season is here! We are getting all excited for BEA and ALA (check out the get-together we have planned with Stacked for ALA!), and we want to know: What authors would be on your dream author panel?
Another Wednesday, another Road Trip! To answer this week’s, respond to this post or answer on your own blog and leave the link in comments at our post. Then you can see how everyone else answered!
This week we want to know: What’s a book you’ve always wanted to read, but haven’t gotten to yet?
Time for a Road Trip! To answer this week’s, respond to this post or answer on your own blog and leave the link in comments at our post. Then you can see how everyone else answered!
This week we want to know: What was the best book you read in April?
Time for a Road Trip! To answer this week’s, respond to this post or answer on your own blog and leave the link in comments at our blog. Then you can see how everyone else answered!
This week we want to know: In our Bookmobile selection this month, Debra Driza’s MILA 2.0, the main character discovers she’s an android trained to obey orders. We want to know: What other human-like robots (or robot-like humans?) have you enjoyed in books, TV, or movies?
Been jogging past this THE OUTSIDERS street art for a year, and it hits me every time.
I was talking with a very nice woman during the signing, who told me that she was an aspiring writer. We talked a little bit about writing, and the process, and then she asked me what kind of stories I wrote.
“Horror,” I said, to which her face became surprised and maybe even a little bit confused, and that’s when I saw it coming, and only a few seconds too soon:
The question.
The question that so. many. people. will ask you when they find out you write horror.
“But how do horror writers think of such terrible, dark things? You know, like Stephen King? What exactly does that say about him, if you know what I mean? It must take some kind of person to imagine—”
I’ll just stop there because I’m sure you get the drift. The question, for the record, is of course well-meaning. Sometimes it truly baffles people who don’t write horror how or why we come up with our stories, and therefore, the fact that we do must mean that we’re wrong in some deliciously dark, twisted way. That we’re freaks, or weirdos, or (fill in the blank as you see fit.)
The truth of the matter is this: like any genre, horror is not for everybody. The misconceptions about people who love all things scary can run from eye-roll-worthy to flat out offensive, and more than once you may find yourself facing somebody who believes that you must be a sick individual.
— Amy Lukavics | “Writing Horror: Some Inevitable Misconceptions” on YA Highway