What I’m Writing: Lucky Seven Meme
*Go to page 77 of your current MS/WIP
*Go to line 7
*Copy down the next 7 lines (sentences or paragraphs) and post them exactly as they’re written. No cheating.
*Tag 7 authors
*Let them know
So, here are my seven lines (they were seven in my Word doc. I think it’s turned into eight here…) from page 77 of my WIP!
Well, first let me introduce the scene so that it’ll make sense. Willa and her mom are having a little heart to heart and Willa wonders aloud about her parents’ divorce and why they decided for her to live in New York with her mom instead of in Missouri with her dad. This is part of her mom’s response. (and, btw, it’s unedited. :/)
“But we also talked about the kind of life you’d have in Missouri. As I’m sure you know, Columbia isn’t a terrible place. The crime rate is obviously lower and it’s a college town, which automatically means you’d be surrounded by smart, cultured, diverse people. And you could have grown up with the sort of childhood both your dad and I had—going to town meetings and football games and ice cream socials. It really was a tough call, because I felt selfish for forcing a child to live in a place as rough and adult as New York is.”
I didn’t know how to respond to this.
So that’s that! Please do let me know if you have any comments/criticisms/ concerns about this in comments.
And my Lucky Seven are:
If you’ve already done this, I do apologize for my lack of attention. But I’m glad you were tagged!
Happy Saturday everyone!
TGIF: On Series Finales
Hello lovelies and welcome to the Good Friday edition of TGIF.
This week the lovely Ginger at GReads has asked:
Book Series Finales: Which book, from any series has been your favorite ending? What about your least favorite ending?
I know this is going to shock you all, but it’s way easier for me to bitch about the series finales I hated with my entire being than the ones I was happy with.
I’ll do my best to be equally positive and negative.
That’s a lie.
But I’ll start with the current fave. (It won’t be shocking.)
Favorite ending
I know I talk about this dang book all the time, but you guys. It is so good. It ends and you’re all
Which is nice.
Because most of the series that I’ve read through until the very end end and I just shrug a little and that’s that. Like with Harry Potter. It didn’t end the way I thought it would, and I’m not in love with the ending, but I’m not mad at it.
Unlike some other series.
But we’ll get to them in a bit.
I think another contributing factor is that I’m in the midst of reading a whole bunch of series that haven’t ended yet*. So. You know. That.
Let’s move onto the hate portion, shall we?
Least favorite ending(s)
I know this is probably sacrilege and I’ll probably go home to, like, a flaming bag of poo in front of my door, but you know what? If those kids in that John Hughes movie and handle it so can I. Mockingjay made me furious. I loved the bazoo out of Hunger Games and Catching Fire and was SO EXCITED to read Mockingjay. And than I read it and was like, WTF COLLINS. I felt like it was lazily written (WHY IS KATNISS ASLEEP ALL THE TIME?!) and that there was not a lot happening and it just kind of trudged along. And maybe that was actually brilliant. But me no likey.
Then there is the OTHER final book I hated . . .
So, I don’t talk about Twilight often. This is because it made me a CRAZY PERSON in college. I started reading them at a very vulnerable moment in my life and was addicted in a way that is unhealthy. I was the girl who SOBBED HER EYES OUT whilst reading New Moon. And who got on forums and chat rooms and debated the finer points of the books with people for HOURS. And insisted that her entire pledge class read the books. (They did.)
And then Breaking Dawn came out. You best believe that I had a copy as soon as they were on shelves. I started it immediately, thinking I was just stay up all night—during my senior year’s University of Arkansas Sorority Recruitment Week, mind you—and finish the book.
But then something happened. I realized I HATED the book with my entire being. It is actually the only book I’ve ever literally thrown across the room.
It laid there for three days.
Eventually I picked it up again and finished it. I actually laughed in a hysterically terrifying way when I closed the back cover because I was so angry about the ending. It’s all build up and tension and you’re feeling it and excited and waiting and then . . . nothing. NOTHING. Like Morales’s song from A Chorus Line.
I was so angry that I spent so much time and energy and enthusiasm on the series. So now when I think about it, I think of all of the time and energy and enthusiasm as a lesson in growing up.
Because I might as well learn a lesson from it.
So that’s that. I could keep listing series finales I was unhappy with, but I have a feeling that baby Jesus would not appreciate that on the day he died. So instead, think happy thoughts. And chaste thoughts. And pious thoughts. For baby Jesus.
*I’ve been on a book buying ban for awhile now and broke it to order Black Heart by Holly Black. I anticipate that I’ll love that one as much as the others. I hope that didn’t just jinx it.
Reactionary Reading: Lola and the Boy Next Door
Welcome to the another edition of Reactionary Reading, a feature where I share the notes I take as I read with y’all. However, I redact the quotes/spoilers so that no one will come after me for spoiling them. If you want to see what it says, highlight the redacted portion (it just looks like a white space) of the sentence and VOILÀ! Words!
This time around I’m sharing my notes on Lola and the Boy Next Door, the companion novel to Anna and the French Kiss that I stayed up all night reading in one sitting, by the lovely and marvelous Stephanie Perkins.
Read more…
Words of Wisdom for Your Wednesday
Tune In Tuesday: Covers of that Gotye Song
What’s your favorite song right now?
I’m willing to bet it’s “Somebody that I Used to Know” by Gotye and Kimbra.
If it’s not, well that’s ok. I’m sure you’re not alone.
But, as if happens, lots of people, including other musicians, really dig the song.
Like, a whole bunch.
So much that they made their own version of it and uploaded them to YouTube.
And because I can’t get the song out of my head (I blame the fact that the xylophone part sounds like “Bah Bah Black Sheep”), I have listened to a whole bunch of the covers.
Here are my two faves.
I really, really love the girl’s voice in this.
Ingrid Michaelson is the cutest. I want to hang out with her.
And, if it wasn’t before, now that song is officially stuck in your head. Welcome to the obsession. (You’re welcome.)
Tune in Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the lovely and fabulous Ginger at GReads.
Bethany Larson 