L is for...

Laconic

Laconic means to use few words.  Laconic is also a 7 letter word that has the potential to score you big points in the game of Scrabble.  If I were to write the laconic version of my book, it would be this...

Middle-aged chick with little experience of grief or loss explores death professions and it freaks her out, but she lives through it.

Guess what?  It's National


So what are you doing still looking at this post?  Go grab the box from that shelf in your closet, gather some friends, make a few mixed drinks and some snacks and have some fun!  

K is for...



This is one of my favorite films from the past few years.  Yep, it's got death in it.  But it also has life.  I love the kid who wants to be a superhero.  Nicolas Cage is totally weird and wonderful, but the film really belongs to Chloe Grace Moretz.  She is this totally bad-ass twelve-year-old with a potty mouth and the skills of a ninja.  I've gotten into some heated arguments with people over this performance.  Some people are totally shocked by what she says and does and I'm like, "Hey, it's just a movie and it's about freakin' time that a young woman got to kick some ass." 

I found it refreshing.

Did you see it?  If not, what movie is your guilty pleasure?

J is for...


I use this word way too much.  It's like a crutch.  What I really need to do is just do it.  Ya know?  Like in the Nike ad campaign!  Just sit my ass down, write brilliant prose that shows what's going on (never tells), that illustrates what's at stake (um, I still don't know) and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

It probably wasn't the best idea to quit nicotine lozenges this week.  I'm a little on edge.  I hate my book.  I hate that I can't give a good enough reason that I explored death other than, I wanted to explore something that scared me and that  also allowed me to get my MFA at the same time.  I hate that writing a book is like water-boarding yourself on purpose.  (I didn't say that, my editor did.)  I hate that this editor is going to read my book in about three weeks and will probably want to stab me with a fork at some point next month.

Why can't writing be easy?  You don't have to answer that.  I'm just bitching and moaning.

If you want to comment, please tell me your favorite book and why it's your favorite book.  I'll start...

"Catcher in the Rye"  Boy is that a cliche choice or what?  It's one of the few books that I have read more than once.  I like Holden Caufield.  He's nuts, but I like him and he meant a lot to me when I was a teen.  He was like my first book crush.  Okay, now you go...