Monthly Summary: June 2018

I hate the summer heat so I'm hanging in there this month. XD Pokemon GO is the only thing motivating me to go outside and spend more than a minute that it takes to get me from building to building. But I've had some fun highlights, most of them while remaining in air conditioning. ;)

Interview with Cohen (Silhouette)!

Me:

I haven't done a character interview in a long time but since Beautiful People has ended for the time being I thought I'd bring it back ... because I miss talking about my characters. XD Thank you to everyone who asked questions! This really helps me develop characters. *sitting in a chair Tonight Show-style, turns to Cohen who's sitting in the chair next to me* Hey, Cohen.

Cohen:
Hello.

Me:
Ready to get started? You've got a lot of questions.

Cohen:
Yes, it'll be a good break.

So Your Character is From Switzerland ... Featuring Anonymous

It's time for this week's So Your Character is ... Post! This is a weekly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country or having a disability. I'm hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a crash course on how to write a character from these different places on our planet. If you haven't checked out last week's  So Your Character is from Spain ... be sure to hop on over there and give it a read!

Disclaimer: The content below may be culturally shocking to some. Each of these posts is as uncensored as possible to preserve the authenticity of the cultures of each of the interviewees.

(None of the Images are Mine)

My Top 5 Favorite Series Endings and Why They're So Satisfying

Endings to a long series are so bittersweet. You've went on this big journey with a character/characters and now it's finally coming to a close. Sometimes this close is terribly unsatisfying (*coughs* Castle and Divergent *coughs*) and other times it comes to a close in such a perfect way that you can't imagine how it could be any better. I have a lot of favorite series endings (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Harry Potter, and the Grisha Trilogy are honorable mentions), but these are what first comes to mind when I think of my top five. I also am going to talk about why these endings are so effective and how you can apply that to your story. 

Warning: Spoilers galore cause we're talking about endings here. What did you expect?

A Book Review of Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

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In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.

Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers, Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. 


Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If the world survives, that is.

Series: The Ender Quintet (Book 1)
Genre: YA Science Fiction
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction (July 15, 1994)
Page Count: 352 pages

This is another story where I saw the movie first and so I knew about the big ending twist before. Some people I've spoken to say that may have hampered my enjoyment of the book, but I still wanted to read this classic. 

So Your Character is From Spain ... Featuring Ana @ The Misstery & Paula @ Flaw Decay

It's time for this week's So Your Character is ... Post! This is a weekly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country or having a disability. I'm hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a crash course on how to write a character from these different places on our planet. If you haven't checked out last week's  So Your Character is from Luxembourg ... be sure to hop on over there and give it a read!

Disclaimer: The content below may be culturally shocking to some. Each of these posts is as uncensored as possible to preserve the authenticity of the cultures of each of the interviewees.

(None of the Images are Mine)