Road Trip Wednesday is a blog carnival, where YA Highway’s
contributors and readers post a weekly writing- or reading-related question and
answer it on our own blogs. You can hop from destination to destination and get
everybody’s take on the topic.
This week’s prompt was: Inspired by Stephanie Perkins’ poston Natalie Whipple’s blog, what is your novel’s “Love List”?
According to The Great and Powerful Ms. Perkins, here’s the
function of a love list:
Whenever I begin a new project, I also begin a list called “What I Love About This Story.” I start by writing down those first ideas that sparked the fires of my mind, and then I add more ideas to it as I discover them during my push through early drafts.
With that in mind, here are a few things I love about my
story:
A boy with an accent
Grief
Air that smells like chocolate
Memory loss
Buzzed hair
Overcoming disability
Candy necklace
Electroshock therapy
Childhood friends
Cliffs overlooking a lake
Guilt
Red plastic glasses
Creepy hospital
Sacrifice
Stargazing
And because I basically have a love list in my mind, where I
store parts of scenes, I thought it’d be fun to give you love lists from two
different perspectives, too. So the first is what I love about my story in
songs that capture a moment, a scene, a chapter, or the whole book. I’ve added
keywords from above if they pertain to this musical love list.
Overcoming disability, memory loss:
Grief, guilt:
Creepy hospital:
Creepy hospital, sacrifice:
The second is a visual love list, with any word tags from above.
A boy with an accent, buzzed hair:
Stargazing, cliffs overlooking a lake
Creepy hospital
What’s on your love list?
Well, this sounds positively, perfectly creepy. Love the images you included... When can I read it?
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