Thursday, June 30, 2011

Too late

So i wrote a great (ok... that could be a stretch but, ya know it's my recounting) post for Road Trip Wednesday. It was about my fave book of the month. Only, now (here in Aussie) it's July thanks to blogger locking me out for 2 days at random.

So, the book I was planning to rave about was 'on the jellicoe road' by Melina Marchetta. loved it, loved it, loved it.

In my great, lost post I also explained how the Aussie RWA do a June Challenge a bit like NaNo and i signed up for 40k... which left little time for reading. But if i don't read i wilt... so i made time. I also managed 40008 words on the WIP and i still love it.

Happy me!

Nearly school hols here. What do you have coming up? Has blogger picked on you lately?
=)

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Come on up and take a guess...

Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway's contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question and answer it on our own blogs. You can hop from destination to destination and get everybody's unique take on the topic.

This Week's Topic:
I give you an off-the-cuff blurb of a book, any genre, and you guys try to guess the book.

 
Ok here goes... um....

An eleven year old orphan learns he's a wizard and discovers he is the key to finally defeating super-bad-nasty guy who was believed vanquished.

=)
Too easy? What about...

A girl volunteers for a reality TV fight to the death in an arena to save her sister.

Anyone know these? Interesting to note that these are both pretty simple, maybe I need to look for that in the WIP.


Wednesday, June 1, 2011

In the name of...

Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway's contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question and answer it on our own blogs. You can hop from destination to destination and get everybody's unique take on the topic.



This Week's Topic:

What is the strangest/weirdest thing you've ever researched?


I've looked up a range of stuff... hmmm... the strangest...

So far the one that got me the strangest look when someone walked in was my research into home made tattoos. Combine it with the fact i've been wanting a tattoo myself and hubby thought i'd taken cheap to a new level. I hurried to reassure him.

Other interesting and hopefully useful stuff includes antique shops in San Fransisco, number of people on a spaceship, how to engage students and psychology of slavery. It does kind of fit together.

Kind of.

What's the strangest thing you've researched for a WIP?