Every now and then, you find a book where the author clearly used you as inspiration for one of the characters. Not sure exactly how, since you’re pretty sure you’ve never met. Maybe they’re stalking you. Maybe they’re in your interwebs, spying through your webcam. MAYBE THEY’RE IN YOUR BRAIN! dop·pel·gäng·er/ˈdäpəlˌɡaNGər/nounan apparition or double of […]
The greatest thing about books: words! All the best words. It’s kind of hard to have one without the other. That’s just sort of how it works. Or so I’m told. The best books stay with you long after you’ve finished them and have been rudely ejected from their world and callously dumped back into […]
You know, they say it’s good to look back and learn from your mistakes, but … eish. The Writerly Way is over a year old now. Nearly a year and a half, even. Which means … there are a lot of things to look back on, and an equal number of mistakes made. I like […]
Fact #1: I’m very much a mood reader.Fact #2: Not all rain is created equal. On the surface, this prompt seems perfect for me, because yay, mood reading! But … what exactly does rain mean? I live in Tornado Alley, so rain for me means thunderstorms more often than not. And hail means tornado. Just, […]
The most memorable characters for me are the outrageous ones. You know who they are: the characters who are so ridiculous or so out there or so extra that they force you to love them. They’re so over the top, and I love every single minute of it. I don’t always like these characters, but […]
I am a terribly predictable book dragon. Sure, I like to read a little bit of everything, but wave one of these tropes under my nose, and I’m hooked every single time. We all have them. The Pentatonix of the literary world. The bacon of the bookshelf. You know, those things you find absolutely irresistible […]
Wow, look at us, getting all controversial now, aren’t we? Though, for the life of me, I don’t see how this is still a conversation we’re having in 2019. In 100 years, after both coasts of the United States are under water and California is probably floating off in the ocean somewhere and we have […]
As a book dragon, there comes a time in your life or once a season where you look ahead to all the wonderful books coming down the pipe and decide which ones you want to read. Sometimes, things are said, deals are made, and souls are traded. Sometimes. All hypothetically, of course. For those of […]
One book is good, but do you know what’s even better? Aside from all the books, because naysayers tell me that’s not possible. That’s right, more than one book. I’m gonna let you go ahead and quantify that however you’d like. Books are social things. They get lonely. Don’t do that to your books. They […]
Okay, who hasn’t read a book and thought, wow, this world is super cool, and I should be part of it, even though I’ll probably die in 0.13 seconds? I’d be super suspicious of that person. I mean, maybe not the dying thing. Maybe that’s just the books I read. But surely there’s at least […]