Books and Fire trucks

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 was the best book you read in July?

Ohhh… best book of the month time already?

I read a few books this month in between getting organized for my son’s 4^th birthday (honestly… a firetruck cake? Talk about pressure for not-great-cook me) but the stand out had to be Amanda Ashby’s Fairy Bad Day.

Simply, it's about a wannabe dragon slayer who gets asigned fairy slaying and needs to enlist the help of the boy who 'stole' her rightful slaying position.

I wasn’t having the best day when I read it and the humor and romance and greatness lifted my spirits. It was the perfect read for the cold wintery glumfish day.

One fire truck cake... it was scarily pink for a while but we got red in the end.

How about you, read anything perfect to lift your mood this month?

Some like it... bad...

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:

 Who are your favorite literary villains/antagonists, and why?

This one got me thinking... in a my head hurts kind of way. I discovered I am rather... um... judgemental with my villains. If they are bad then i dislike them. And that works for, say, Harry Potter where Voldemort is pretty straight evil. But then I thought further and thought of Snape. He's a villain for much of the books but that twists and turns.... and makes him appealing. So i think he'd not only rank as a fave but a prototype.

A villain i like needs to be well motivated and can do 'bad' things as long as they're ultimately.... good.

Note: I am much less picky in movies or TV... them bad boys often look so fine!

What about you? Any fave villains? Does it matter if you can see their hotness?

Inspire me

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:

 

Share some image(s) that inspire your WIP

 

I like to collect images of my main characters so i can see them easily in my head. And I like to have other fragments that inspire a mood or an aspect of the character.

 

But I think this image and those like them on the news fill my mind the most with this WIP. My brother-in-law and his young family live in Japan and we worried for them greatly, still do considering radiation issues.

What about you? Any inspirational piccies? Relatives living in scary places?