The A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal

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The A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal

My theme for this year I hope will be both educational and entertaining for my visitors. I’m going to teach you how to write…by showing you how not to write.

THE WORST ROMANCE NOVEL EVER WRITTEN IN 26 DAYS.

My hoped-for goal with this chosen theme, gentle readers and writers, is to teach you how not to write a book. Each day’s letter will explore a different component of creative writing and the worst way you could possibly implement it. From awful dialog to awkward foreshadowing, cartoonish villains and even more cartoonish heroes, useless details, too many details, plot that goes nowhere, and metaphor-laced drivel, there will be something to offend even the most seasoned writer/agent/editor/beta reader/long-suffering friend of an author who thinks they’ve seen it all. Take notes, learn, discuss, and most importantly–laugh.

Each ‘chapter’ will consist of four paragraphs or short pieces of dialog, not only for the sake of brevity, but so you don’t lose your mind.

I hope you’ll hang out with me in April and take some writing lessons—that may never leave you, for all the wrong reasons.

PANDORA’S TACKLEBOX

Billionaire Highlander cowboy Hawk MacHardcastle is tired of living the jetset life of champagne, bucking broncos, kilts, fast cars, and burning bundles of cash for warmth. Desperate to find meaning in his life, he retires to his family’s isolated cabin in the wilds of New Jersey, on the shores of majestic Lake Latrine.

There, Hawk plans on self-reflection and pursuing the great love of his life—fishing. However, Hawk’s self-imposed loneliness comes to an end when he makes a most unusual companion and fishing buddy.

Dropsy Velvet was once a young woman living on the shores of Lake Latrine with her settler family. However, a curse turned her into a mermaid and now she lives, sad and alone, in the depths of the lake. She hasn’t had human contact for close to fifty years, thanks to everyone either being terrified of her or thinking they’re drunk when they see her—but Hawk may be the connection to the world she’s been craving. Charmed by her innocent face, sparkling wit, and huge bare breasts, Hawk decides to help her find a way to lift the curse, as she will lift his: the curse of ennui and affluenza. But time is running out, for something sinister wants to flush Latrine away forever.

Letter Schedule:

A – Annnd…Action!

B – Backstory

C – Characterization

D – Dialog

E – Exposition

F – Foreshadowing

G – Genre

H – Hyperbole

I – Idioms

J – Jargon

K – Kinesics

L – Local Color

M – Metaphor

N – Names

O – Onomatopoeia

P – Purple Prose

Q – Quandary

R – Red Herring

S – Show vs. Tell

T – Tension

U – Understatement

V – Villains

W – Winding Up the Climax

X – X-PLOSION

Y – You Did It!

Z – Zip It Up