Category: Fiction
Walk the Plank: The Love Story Edition
“Walk the Plank” is the YA Buccaneers‘ monthly flash fiction challenge. The rules are simple: write a piece of flash fiction of 200 words or fewer based on the theme of the month, and...
What’s Up Wednesday
It’s that time of the week again–yes… Wednesday. And I’ll tell you one thing that isn’t happening this week: snow! We had some warm weather over the weekend that just about cleared away all...
Walk the Plank: Adventures in Space
“Walk the Plank” is a YA Buccaneers meme, where you challenge your writing skills by composing a 200-word piece of fiction based on the YA Buccaneers’ theme of the month. This month, the theme...
Movie Adaptations of Books: Some Thoughts
I saw two new movies last week: “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” and “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.” During the previews, I saw the trailer for the upcoming movie adaptation of Veronica Roth’s...
Walk the Plank: 2013 Rewind
Time for another YA Buccaneers “Walk the Plank” flash fiction challenge. I’ve done a few of these already, so if you follow the blog, you know the score. The same basic rules apply: Write...
Walk the NaNo Plank
For this month’s Walk the Plank flash fiction challenge, the YA Buccaneers are celebrating NaNoWriMo by offering participants the opportunity to either write something original, or share 200 words of their current NaNo project....
