Other Blogs: Flaming Sun 4/19/2019

As Tax Season begins to calm down, I started thinking about whether I want to participate in this year’s A to Z challenge. It makes me write more than normal, but the co-requirement of visiting other blogs is time-consuming. On one hand, I don’t have much time – on the other hand, I discover such gems as Flaming Sun. I loved this blog post she made in April 2019, discussing how she has a reoccurring character who has wormed his way into story after story.

I responded with:

Every writer should have one of THOSE characters. That character who, when you work on another book, strolls in and looks around, maybe leaving his/her imprint behind and then goes back where they come from. They never ask for their own story – they just want to meet everyone else. I have one – unfortunately he isn’t a detective, so I usually have to leave his visits on the editing floor. – Erin 

Do you have a reoccurring character who just won’t stay in their original creation but keeps showing up – crossing genres, timelines, and universes willy-nilly? Comment below on this question and/or if I should participate in the A-to-Z challenge. Is the time investment worth the production results?

Again the blog that made me think about this is: https://www.sundarivenkatraman.in/2019/04/a2z-april-challenge-2019-q-for-quirky.html?showComment=1555784793139#c7336481118263561866

And the link to the A-to-Z challenge is here: http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/

Q is for Questions

A TO Z – Yes, I am flipping “P” and “Q”. My normal Tuesday is an Author Spotlight, and not many authors start with “Q”. Come back tomorrow and find out about Peter Prellwitz. Now onward to Q is for Questions!

 

 

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Flash: Amount to Something

I ran across this prompt when I was doing AtoZ in April 2019:

You’ve just narrowly survived an attack. This random person came out of nowhere with some sort of weapon. It seemed as if they wanted to kill you. But why? You’ve done nothing to them. There’s no reason why someone would want you dead.

What if you found out that this would-be assassin traveled from the future with the intent to kill you?

My answer:

The bad guy, girl, not exactly sure with all the future junk hanging off of them, laid there sparking and twitching.

“What the tarnation was that about?” I scream in their slightly burned face.

“You. You changed everything.”

“Good, bad?”

“Changed.” They whisper fading. I mean really fading – they just fade from view.

“Well, that is just dandy. No hints.” I stop and look around to see if anyone had showed up yet from all that noise, when I realize something. “Hey, I’m famous in the future. Guess I got that going for me. And the teachers said I would never amount to anything.”

(words 105, first published 4/24/2019)

H is for Humor

H is for Humor

(The above is from a facebook post from a friend … I found it incomplete. Shout out to all Princess Bride fans.)

Qwawantine that bwessed restriction, that nightware wifin a nightware …

And qwawantire, tru qwawantine, if not fowwowed pwopewly will last foweva.

So tweasure your qwawantine–

(President Trumperdinck: Skip to the end.)

F is for Falstaff

 

F is for Falstaff. Hey all, I’m an editor at Falstaff books and we are having a 99 cent book sale on our first in series. Below are four of the 33 on sale (if you want to know more – just let me know … others include space western, fantasy, and sci-fi.). I kept it to four of my faves.

The Darkest Storm Book 1: Storm Forged

First up is the first book I developmentally edited for Falstaff (I’m over 20 books now) – Storm Forged (not the proofreader!). A superhero in a not-so-happy world. Selling tag line “The X-Men meets The Hunger Games in this thrilling debut superhero novel!” (Clicking on the title or the book above will take you to Amazon) That is it for books I have touched. Full length novel.

Now books I have read

  1. Of Lips and Tongue by A.G. Carpenter – the first in an amazing series of Southern Gothic novellas (all of which are out). You can by the taster below or get the omnibus – Touch: A Trilogy

 

2. The Mussorgsky Riddle – A psychic mixed with music in Urban Fantasy. So good. Full length novel.

3. Perishables – Y’all know I love Michael G. Williams and his writing. This is the book that started my love. A vampire has to decide between revealing himself or letting his Homeowner’s Associate get eaten by zombies. The first in the series is really two or three novellas combined and isn’t the best of the series … but it is a great and fun beginning.