November is National Novel Writing Month

On your mark
Get ready
Set
Go!

If you haven't heard, November is national novel writing month.
You are either thinking:
Woo-hoo!
So what?
Or oh, that's nice (with alittle sarcasm thrown in)

What I like about the Young Writers Program is that
YOU, yes YOU!, get to decide what you want your goal to be.
Do you want to write the next exciting novel or
do you want to finish a short story?

Completely up to you!
Even if you don't call yourself a writer, you have the
ability to write--even if that means journalling your day.

Good luck and enjoy.

Wonkenstein: The Creature from my Closet

One of the many new titles I JUST checked in to circulate from our library is
"Wonkenstein: The Creature from my Closet" by Obert Sue.

If you are the tiniest bit a Diary of a Wimpy Kid fan, then hands down you will enjoy this book.  Written in a similiar middle school boy voice, 12 year old Rob will leave you laughing from the beginning.  You meet his sister, who when asked in the spelling bee to spell 'beautiful'--spelled her own name--Libby; his dad, mom and little brother Kevin, aka Tuffin.

Interspersed with cartoonish drawings throught out, this is an enjoyable read--no matter your age.

Fan Fiction

Reading through Book Page this morning, I was drawn to the question regarding parents asking about their daughter writing fan fiction.
The website Fanfiction is referenced--so I thought I'd hop on the bandwagon and head over to this cite.  I've heard of fan fiction, but hadn't gone any further.  All I can say is WOW!

As a self-proclaimed writer from kindergarten, I fell in love with the fact that there is a ton of writing going on --and with teens!!  I haven't delved in completely, but enough to see that there is a place for writing teens (and adults) to share their interests--whether it be a certain character or character setting.

What character would you write about?  Or setting?
Interesting.

Delirium

With the trend of dystopian YA fiction, I wasn't surprised that how easily I was captured into Delirium.  I fell in love with the snippets of 'rules' beginning each chapter...a poetry between religiousity and governmental regulations, deemed to keep us safe.
Safe from the each other.
Safe from ourselves.
Safe from love.
The biggest killer of them all.

Lena is set to have her procedure, so she can be 'cured' in 95 days, safely dreaming of never falling in love.  Unlike her mother, who had the procedure 4 times and continually loved with her entire being.   Loved so deeply, that it killed her.  Lena wants nothing of the sort.

But then she meets Alex. Alex opens her world up to new possibilities, new truths--leading her to wonder what is truly reality.  Lena will have many struggles and action to figure out if love is worth living or dying for.