Today I'm going to highlight some of my favourite things to read. The first few are going to be actual books that I've loved and read more than once; the last few are going to be blog entries geared specifically towards writers. Reading for the cold winter months: curl up with a good book under your favourite blanket-don't we all just love it?
For those of you who have gotten Christmas money, some books to consider
~Anne Rice: Lasher-the thing with Anne Rice is some of her stuff is heavy and hard to get through; for horror fans, Lasher is definitely one of her best works.
~Timothy Carter: Epoch-this is a fun one, it's somewhat horror but it's also quite humorous (if your sense of humor is as warped as mine.)
~Sidney Sheldon: Tell Me Your Dreams-this is a dark book and a fairly heavy one; I'm not sure what to classify it as, only that it's definitely NOT YA.
~Barbara Erskine: Lady Of Hay-not for the light of heart, this is an absolutely amazing, heartbreaking story.
A few lighter reads:
~The Chronicles of Narnia (if you don't know of this series... you need a new education.)
~A Series Of Untortunate Events by Lemony Snicket: not the most pleasant of events, but his style keeps it from getting heavy, and the books are a lot of fun.
~Terry Pratchett: The Colour Of Magic-this is his first book in the Disc World series, and it's great fun.
~Piers Anthony's Incarnations series is also great fun.
Blog entries for writers:
These are a few of my favourite rants from Limyaael:
On animals and hunting-http://www.forresterl abs.com/limyaael/rant163686
On Art in culture-http://www.forresterl abs.com/limyaael/rant159024
On Religions-http://www.forreste rlabs.com/limyaael/rant131681
What Makes A Good Fantasy-http://www.forresterl abs.com/limyaael/rant128913
Ten Pieces Of Writing Advice-http://www.forresterla bs.com/limyaael/rant120163
That's all for today, folks. I'm burnt out and will likely be tomorrow after Christmas activities and wandering about on the relatives' new farm. I'll probably use that as a writing exercise and post something about it tomorrow, and then hopefully Friday I'll have the energy to do a critique.
I'm still looking for five volunteers for a first-page critique. Please email me at diannalgunn@gmail.com
ALSO: I've finished the first half of my workshop-planning. For the writing section, I'm going to have six (one a week) articles about the writing process, which will be posted on the blog as well as the workshop site, and I'm going to be doing ten pep talks. I'm looking for people to write pep talks. I need a total of six pep talks from other people.
I'm going to be emailing a published author who I was in contact with a while ago asking her if she would be willing to contribute either a pep talk or a planning exercise. I'm really hoping for that.
I'm also going to be turning the workshop into a PDF which will be made available on Lulu sometime after the workshop ends. Each revision will be a new version of the PDF. The PDF will contain the exercises as well as a few extra articles from my blog on the process of writing, editing, and submitting.
If you are willing to help-especially if you will let me put your pep talk/exercise in the PDF-please contact me at diannalgunn@gmail.com
Happy holidays, folks.
~Dianna
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