mortiz098

2018 is ending, and with it, I hope a few horrible (in my opinion) tropes end with it. 1. Characters without character arcs.  Look, if your character has a sin issue such as pride, selfishness, the habit of being a grump, ect. ect. That's fine, flaws in characters are good , it's what makes them interesting and human... HOWEVER , if there is never a point where they want to change their ways, or even where they realize they have some shortcomings, there's a problem, sis. I'm really tired of characters never being or even having one moment of self-awareness. Leave this in 2018!  2. Emotionless girls. The whole feminist "girls are just as strong and wicked cool as boys and go girl power!" YA movement was cool at first, but then we got the same female protagonist in every YA book. EMOTIONS ARE OKAY . CRYING DOESN'T MAKE YOU WEAK. NOT ALL WOMEN (OR EVEN MEN) HAVE TO BE PHYSICALLY STRONG IN ORDER TO BE A STRONG PERSON!! There are many different t...

So somehow all of my blogger pictures are gone?? I've fixed a few on some posts, but there are many others with no images because I have to manually re-upload those images, some of which I no longer have and I don't have time to make graphics. Sorry guys! I'm going to be deleting a lot of posts, which is too bad because I was almost at 200 posts. :/ I fixed my last post which you can see here :

Hey all, I am alive (barely, but you knowww)! And I am here with the review I told you about. Book synopsis  (from goodreads): Kaely Quinn's talents as an FBI behavior analyst are impossible to ignore, no matter how unorthodox her methods. But when a reporter outs her as the daughter of an infamous serial killer, she's demoted to field agent and transferred to St. Louis. When the same reporter who ruined her career claims to have received an anonymous poem predicting a string of murders, ending with Kaely's, the reporter's ulterior motives bring his claim into question. But when a body is found that fits the poem's predictions, the threat is undeniable, and the FBI sends Special Agent Noah Hunter to St. Louis. Initially resentful of the assignment, Noah is surprised at how quickly his respect for Kaely grows, despite her oddities. But with a brazen serial killer who breaks all the normal patterns on the loose, Noah and Kaely are tested to their limits to catch the ...

Thursday night I was lying in my bed trying to get to sleep, I hadn't slept the other night (unless you call finally falling asleep around 6 am and waking up at 8 am a good night's rest), but despite how exhausted I was and how my eyes burned from too many tears and too little sleep, I couldn't seem to drift off. My mind kept wandering and worrying. Somehow I started thinking about a friend I use to have, and how she really helped me when I was going through a lot last year. I was wishing she was still here, because it was really really nice to have a friend who understood what you were going through because they've been there . Then I started thinking about all of the times I have been that friend in the past to someone, even if I only knew them for an hour. People use to gravitate towards me when they needed help. I met a little girl who was worried about her mom who had just been diagnosed with cancer while teaching a summer writing class a few years back. During a C...

From the overly quirky to the cardboard cutouts, the young adult section has an overwhelming amount of characters that almost feel like real teens but are missing something. Ever read a book with a main character you just couldn't root for? Perhaps, they didn't feel human or perhaps they were too relatable to the point of being bland, but you just couldn't connect with these characters. Which as a writer, this always makes me take a double look at my own characters. Are they two dimensional? Unlovable? Unrealistic? And if so, why? And how can we, as aspiring authors prevent this? The main problem I find in many protagonists in young adult fiction is that they don't feel like teens. Sometimes they are written like twenty-year-olds, the parents aren't really in the picture, partying every night, crazy road trips and adventures, smoking, drinking, and constant sex. It's just not a realistic way of everyday life for the majority of teens. Sometimes they're just ...