Tag: fiction
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Forum Friday: Favorite books of 2013
What were your favorite books this year? They don’t have to be new as long as they were new to you! Here are some of my favorites (not presented in rank– they were all 5 stars for me): The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Gone Girl…
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Forum Friday: What do you recommend for magical realism?
This one’s for the readers– and for me, because I love magical realism, and haven’t read nearly enough of it. Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate may be the only full-length novel I’ve read that employs it throughout (ex: tears gushing into floods, quail cooked with rose petals that ignite feelings of passion when eaten,…
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Forum Friday: What has the Nano experience taught you?
Just one more day of November and the madness that is Nanowrimo! Whether you’ve reached the magic 50,000 or not– whether it’s your first time doing Nano, your twenty-first, or you heard what Nanowrimo was and ran away screaming in terror– with every draft comes experiment, progress, and lessons. So what did you learn? What…
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Forum Friday: First person or third?
Which is your favorite point of view to write: first person or third? (Or second, if you’re into Choose Your Own Adventure. ;)) Which do you find easiest? Most challenging? What about tense? What POV and tense combination does your favorite book use?
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Forum Friday: Plot Ninjas
Since today is the start of Nanowrimo, I thought I’d mix things up a little and rather than ask a question, prompt those of you reading this to provide a plot ninja. What is a plot ninja? A plot ninja is a random plot twist. “Protagonist finds a note taped to her refrigerator.” “Antagonist is…
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Forum Friday: Do you write in sprints or marathons?
What I mean by that is, Do you power-write in quick bursts (say, 300-500 words in an hour) or are you more likely to stake a place in a café or library for the day and work at a slower but steadier pace? I think this is an especially relevant topic as the ~1,700 word-a-day…
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Forum Friday: Outlier Books
Have you ever read a book that did something totally different? I am thinking in terms of format specifically, but answers do not have to be limited to that context. A few outlier books that come to mind: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. This book is a nesting doll of six narratives, following six characters (who are…
Julie Israel 