stranger than fiction

Well, my creative writing class is gearing up for a Class Novel Writing Month (ClaNoWriMo) in April. To get in the mood, we watched Stranger Than Fiction, a great flick! It is so fun for the kids to see how the writer in the movie created a whole world, full of interesting characters. Tomorrow the kids will be inventing their own characters. I just hope no one actually has to undergo the tortures that the kids are sure to put their characters through! Poor Harold Crick.

As for me, I am reading yet another Picoult novel. They're addictive. It actually reminds me of when I was in middle school and had to read all of the Sweet Valley High books. Though they were formulaic, they were comforting. Not that Picoult is as simple as those books. She does tend to follow a formula, however. But if it works, it works. She's got me sucked in! Right now I'm reading The Plain Truth, about an Amish girl who may or may not have had a baby in a barn and left it to die. Her premises are so interesting. Awesome premise + ethical questions + driven lawyer with a soft side = Picoult.