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My purpose with this blog is to interactively work through the process of writing my first young adult book, tentatively titled Perdition. The briefest way I could explain the general idea is that it's meant to be like Twilight but with a girl who's both less and more sure of herself than Bella, a ghost on a sinister mission, and a crazy extended family. Don't worry there will still be a love triangle. However, I certainly don't intend this to be a romance first. It's much more about coming-of-age, family, and loss. My plan is to work my way through the process, including research (such as reviews of other books I read for inspiration along the way), character sketches, pleas for help, and whatever else might crop up along the way. If you'd prefer just to read the book as it's developed, you can visit the secondary page. Here goes nothing...

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Writing a good simile is like...

While revising my first chapter, I've been troubled by a simile I wrote.  Part of my problem is that while recently reading Desperate Characters by Paula Fox for mini-book club with my friend Dave (which was great, you should check it out), I think I found my favorite simile EVER and everything I write pales in comparison.  Here it is:

"Trying to stop her for talking is like trying to get a newspaper under a dog before it pukes!"

So I ask you?  Is that not the best simile ever?

(Yes, writing this post is a form of procrastination so I can delay coming up with a satisfactory rhetorical device of my own).
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