Genre Favorites Blogfest, Woot!

I'm happy to be participating in Alex Cavanaugh's awesome Genre Favorites Blogfest today!

One blogfest, four favorites!

List your favorite genre of:

Movie

Music

Books

And a guilty pleasure genre from any of the three categories!

Here are my faves.

My Favorite Movie Genre: Fantasy (and yeah, this particular movie would be a guilty pleasure...) I love Fantasy!

I'm very visual and I really enjoy that you can make up the rules for the world (i.e. people can fly and do magic) and that characters and places can be as beautiful or as gruesome as you imagine then to be... that Unicorns and Fairies exist there and that people wear such unusual clothes!

My Favorite Music Genre: Folk and Anti-Folk

I love these two genres and the juxtaposition between them. The lyricism, flow, and social commentary all speak to me deeply... 

My Favorite Book Genre: YA Fantasy

I like this genre for the same reasons I like Fantasy movies... anything is possible! You create the world, you create the rules, you tell us what happens. (It's why I write it, too.) I love diving into other people's worlds and learning how things work.

In YA I feel like the characters, even if they start out jaded and hardened by their pasts, have so much potential for growth... that they don't always have to end up as jaded as they start out... because they're younger, perhaps, I feel like they are more resilient and more likely to experience dramatic change.

Hope.

My Guilty Pleasure: It's funny because fantasy used to be my guilty pleasure... I was a Lit major and have been known to be very serious with my reading list... I guess my guilty pleasure is reading new books (that have just been published) and best sellers instead of just focusing on the classics.

That's all for today. We're off to the mountains for the end of the week, so I should have some fun photos for you all when we return.

WHAT IF? Fairytale Madness Blogfest!

Get ready y'all! It's here! And YOU can still sign up!

WHAT IF?

Fairytale Madness BlogFest!

AUGUST 13th – 17th

Hosted by: Cassie Mae, Morgan Shamy, Leigh Covington, and Mark Koopmans

Rules

To enter, think of your favorite "well known" fairytale and ask "What If…!" Then, pick one of these four categories: (be sure to mention which category you're joining, during your blog post!)

Finally, write a scene(s) illustrating a new detail of the fabled fairy tale that changes our perspective.
To recap,

• Is it a plot twist? (Cinderella gets knocked up by the Carriage Driver…)
• An unknown romance that comes to light? (Snow White dumps the Prince for Grumpy…)
• A tragic loss occurs? (The Three Little Pigs are too late to save their house…)
• A little comic relief? (Hansel and Gretel win a trip on Euro Rail, sponsored in part by M&M’s…)

Whatever the change…It's limited only by your imagination – but please keep it PG-13

Other Rules:

• Post your story during the week of August 13 to 17.
• Flash Fiction – 300 WORD MAX. (You don't have to tell the whole story in three hundred words. Pick what works to illustrate your point.)

JUDGING CATEGORIES and the respective judges:

• Best Plot Twist – Cassie Mae
• Best Love Story - Morgan Shamy
• Best Tragedy -  Leigh Covington
• Best Comic Relief - Mark Koopmans

PRIZES!

(Prize will go to the winner of judge's sponsored category. For example, Leigh's prize goes to the winner of Best Tragedy, Mark's prize goes to winner of Best Comic Relief, etc.)

• Leigh is offering: A Paperback Copy of "Save The Cat," by Blake Snyder!
• Morgan is offering: A full manuscript critique!
• Cassie Mae is offering: $25 Amazon Gift Card
• Mark is offering: a $25 Hawaiian care package (incl. $5 USPS Priority Shipping) Winner can choose from any number of small items such as candy, trinkets, Kona Coffee, etc.

So go!!! Please! Sign up and join me next week in coming up with some cool twists and turns to our favorite fairy tales! See you around!

Goals being met!

Yay! I'm excited because I found a blogfest to enter... not only that, but it's a really cool one and will likely be a good challenge for the next month or so. For full details, see here:

WHAT IF?

Fairytale Madness BlogFest! 

AUGUST 13th – 17th 

I have these categories to choose from:

I have to pick a fairy tale and ask "What if...?" and then in 300 words show you what I think would have happened in answer to that question. Hmmmm... decisions, decisions...

One of my summer goals was blogfesting! I'm very excited to take part and hope I'll make some new blog friends in the process. You know I said I'd throw my own blogfest when I reach 100 followers. Won't that be fun?