It's the first Wednesday of the month, and that means it's time for another meeting of The Insecure Writer's Support Group. Our leader Alex J. Cavanaugh has assembled a great group of co-hosts for this month: J. Lenni Dorner, Janet Alcorn, PJ Colando, Jenni Enzor, and Diane Burton.
Be sure to check out the IWSG website for great writing advice!
On a quick personal note, I'd like to wish my husband a happy birthday. He turns 35 today. I haven't told many people about this, but he had a health scare over the last few weeks. He was recently diagnosed with a rare form of skin cancer this week. He had surgery last week to remove the cancerous tissue, and the good news is, the surgeon was able to successfully remove it all. Now he just needs to finish healing from the surgery itself. It may be a few weeks before he regains full range of motion of his arm, but we're past the worst of it.
Now on to the optional question for this month: If you could live in any book world, which one would you choose?
This is a difficult choice. I can think of so many! In the realm of fantasy, it would be amazing to spend some time in the Harry Potter universe. I'd also like to spend some time in the world of Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. In that book, the protagonist Richard discovers there's an entire society of people living below London. The culture and magic of this world is so fasinating that I would love to explore it.
In the realm of science fiction, I'd love to spend some time in the universe of The Expanse series by James SA Corey. Granted, there are a lot of dangers, political and otherwise, that I'd prefer to avoid, by the prospect of being able to access various solar systems through the system of ring gates would be irresistable to me. I'd love to snag my own little ship and do some traveling.
Which book world would you like to live in?
So happy to hear the surgery got it all. Now he can really celebrate his birthday.
ReplyDeleteWhat a scare! Awesome they got it all.
ReplyDeleteLoved watching Expanse but I'm nowhere near brave enough to visit it!! Congrats on the good news!!
ReplyDeleteI want to read Neverwhere. Something to look forward to.
ReplyDeleteWhoa! Neverwhere is an interesting choice. I very much would want to visit *after* Croup and Vandemar are out of the picture.
ReplyDeleteOh my, you guys have been through a lot! I wish you and your family strength and peace in times like this :D Happy Birthday to your Husband.
ReplyDeleteI hope your August is going well.
ReplyDelete“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
―Anne Herbert
My IWSG blog post discussed my love of originality. I'm looking forward to the bout of books readathon and WEP's flash fiction later this month.
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