Tell me where to go... seriously

Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway's contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question that begs to be answered. In the comments, you can hop from destination to destination and get everybody's unique take on the topic.







This Week's Topic:When you need creative inspiration, where do you go? This road trip comes at a handy time. At the moment i'm feeling a bit lacking in inspiration. I'm a bit between projects and while I have a couple of ideas I LOVE i'm not sure I'm equipped to do them justice. I need some inspiration. Or maybe a kick in the pants. Usually I find inspiration everywhere. I grabs of conversation, in the news, in gossip of my friends... and in books. LOTS and lots of books. But at the moment I'm a bit flat. Maybe cos it's birthday season here smack after school hols. So, where do you go? Inspire me. Please.

Bring me the popcorn instead

Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway's contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question that begs to be answered. In the comments, you can hop from destination to destination and get everybody's unique take on the topic.

This Week's Topic:

What movie have you seen that actually (gasp!) improved on the book?

This week's questions stabs straight to my heart of 'books rule' with the chants and pthe placards and the insistance my kids will read Harry Potter before they see the movies. I think there's something so deep and immediate about a book and being in the character's head...

 

But...

 

And there's always a but. I find that if I see the movie first I can become attached to that condensed version and if it's done brilliantly then it can bring a scene to life in a way a book can't. Not better always... just different.

 

The one that springs to mind is Trainspotting. The book didn't show me the world the way the movie did. Both pretty intense though.

 

What about you, is there a movie you loved but the book was a bit ho-hum?

 

 

The girl most likely

Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway's contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question that begs to be answered. In the comments, you can hop from destination to destination and get everybody's unique take on the topic.

This Week's Topic:

What yearbook "most" category (also known as superlatives) would your character win?

 

For my WIP it probably depends on when in the story the award was given. At the beginning it would definitely be 'MOST LIKELY TO BE FORGOTTEN BY MOST OF HER CLASS' and that's just the way she likes it. Fitting in, going under the radar... it works for her BIG time.

 

However by the end of the story she's changed. She's never going to be an extrovert but she's found her spunk. She'd be right up there for 'Most likely to confront her mortal enemy in front of the school' and 'Most likely to pull a prank that fools everyone'.

 

What about your characters? You?

 

 

 

 

 

Best this month

Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway's contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question that begs to be answered. In the comments, you can hop from destination to destination and get everybody's unique take on the topic.





This Week's Topic:
What was your best book for June?

Where the #$%@ did June go? I think I must have blinked and missed it. Kid sickness and trying to do the 50kin30days we do here in Aussie through RWAus meant the month passed pretty quickly.

However i did sneak in some reading (or i might have exploded) and I had a favourite.

It was Starters by Lissa Price.

I've actually had this on my TBR since Mother's Day and have been holding off. I was writing in contemp land and didn't want to be thinking Dystopian. But as my reward for finishing my draft I was able to get stuck in.

And it was well worth the wait. I read it fast but it left me thinking - a great combo. And isn't the cover awesome?

What about you?

Summer Loving

Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway's contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question that begs to be answered. In the comments, you can hop from destination to destination and get everybody's unique take on the topic.





This Week's Topic:

How did you spend/how will you spend the summer after graduation?
                                                                                                                           
I remember that as one of the longest summers ever. here our summer/end includes Chistmas and New Year so there's a lot happening. University starts about a month after school goes back so I had 4 extra summer weeks.

The first thing was farewell my best friend. She was off on exchange to Germany and I was pretty jealous and a bit sad. We'd been inseperable and I was going to have to negotiate all those weeks without her.

Luckily another friend and I grew closer so i had someone to go out with since legal age here is 18 (and I was almost 18...).

The best thing I did that summer happened near the end. I was actually getting over glandular fever that made me miss most of my final school year and staying up late didn't really happen well but this night I managed nearly 4am. My friend cornered two boys on the side of the road.

Being the nerd I am I was pretty sure they were serial killers but it turns out one of them... the one I didn't really notice at first... would be my husband.

Falling in love was the very best part of my summer!

What about you?

Retreat

Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway's contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question that begs to be answered. In the comments, you can hop from destination to destination and get everybody's unique take on the topic.








This Week's Topic:
If you could go on a writing retreat anywhere, where would you go & who would you bring?

Oooh, now this is a fun question to think about! With three little kids a writing retreat is a way off but one day it WILL happen.

And I know the perfect place to go.

Last summer we went on a driving holiday up the east coast of Australia and stopped at a heap of great places. My favorite for a writing retreat would have to be a caravan park we stayed at near Bateman's bay. We had a beautiful new cabin and we were across the road from the beach.

It was inspirational. The peace I need to write and a lovely town with awesome take away thai food only 15 mins away. I'd have to take a CP or two for brainstorming of course.

Where would you go?

Simply the best

Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway's contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question that begs to be answered. In the comments, 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 May?

This was a tough decision for me. I've been on a contemporary binge lately because of the work in progress. I read 6 great books but when deciding my very best book in May I had to toss a coin between two.

And the reason was pretty simple. It's the one that stayed with me long after I switched off my eReader. I couldn't stop thinking about Anna and St Clair and I knew in my heart they lived on even though I'd stopped reading.

They existed outside the book for me.

That's magic.

What about you? What did you read and like BEST!!

P.S. the lineball book... 'Lola and the Boy Next Door.'