Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters: Key Outfits

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Clothes played a sizeable role in the book, Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters. This isn’t because the writer or the protagonist were huge fashion buffs but rather because what you wear is considered important in defining who you are, particularly in high school. That’s why I decided to pay special attention to some of the key outfits featured.

 

First day of freshman year! So the first day is pretty important. It’s the day where you make those nearly unbreakable first impressions and boy oh boy does Kelsey make her mark. Who can forget such a shiny, red blazer, especially if it’s on film…

Kelsey gets kissed! A girl’s first kiss is a pretty important part of her life, it;s something she’ll remember forever. Unfortunately for Kelsey, hers doesn’t go quite as planned but at least she looks hot, right? :S

Kelsey goes to prom! I’ve never personally been to a prom myself, we don;t have them in Barbados, but in lots of books and shows on high school, the prom is a pretty big deal. It’s probably even more of a big deal if you go as a freshman. Go, Kelsey!

I hope you guys like my new feature. Tell me what you think in the comments.

Kris.

Guest Post: Meredith Zeitlin, author of Freshman Year and Other Unnatural Disasters

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Today, Meredith Zeitlin is joining us here on Words That Fly, to tell us how she managed to write from her 14-year old protagonist’s point-of-view, capturing the voice of a young teen without belittling it.

CAPTURING THE TEENAGE EXPERIENCE

When I sat down to write what eventually became Freshman Year…, I really didn’t have a plan in mind. I just started writing what Kelsey was thinking about, and who she was kind of unfolded as I went along. But she was always fourteen, right from the beginning. I didn’t think about making her voice young or mature for her age, though – I just wrote it. To be honest, her voice is just my voice – with a little extra outrage thrown in for dramatic effect. (Or maybe not. I bet my friends would tell you I’m actually exactly like that. Oh, dear.)

Morning Muse: Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters by Meredith Zeitlin

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Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters

Meredith Zeitlin

Young Adult – Contemporary

G.P Putnam’s Sons

March 1st, 2012

E-book

 

 

Kelsey Finkelstein is fourteen and FRUSTRATED. Every time she tries to live up to her awesome potential, her plans are foiled – by her impossible parents, her annoying little sister, and life in general. But with her first day of high school coming up, Kelsey is positive that things are going to change. Enlisting the help of her three best friends — sweet and quiet Em, theatrical Cass, and wild JoJo — Kelsey gets ready to rebrand herself and make the kind of mark she knows is her destiny.

Things start out great – her arch-nemesis has moved across the country, giving Kelsey the perfect opportunity to stand out on the soccer team and finally catch the eye of her long-time crush. But soon enough, an evil junior’s thirst for revenge, a mysterious photographer, and a series of other catastrophes make it clear that just because KELSEY has a plan for greatness… it doesn’t mean the rest of the world is in on it.

General Comments

Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters is one of those books that makes me want to delve deeper into a genre. It’s a contemporary, a genre I don’t read much, and I really connected with it, something that doesn’t happen very often when I read something ‘contemporary’. It’s not just about a fourteen-year old girl and the drama she experiences in her freshman year of high school. It’s about finding and keeping friends, honesty, loyalty, and trust. It sounds pretty deep but it’s written in such a hilarious and light-hearted way that as a reader I wasn’t overcome by the concept of ‘the bigger picture’ but I definitely felt reaffirmed by its presence.

Words That Fly has just turned ONE!!!

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You read right. Words That Fly is now one year old. It’s been a bumpy year and I’ve had to take time away from the blog, not just once, not twice, but several times. But hopefully this will change. And to bring Words That Fly back with a bang I have a week full of awesome sauce posts planned for you.

To start this week off, I’m throwing an international giveaway! That’s right. All you have to do is fill out the form below and you’ll have a chance to win a $15 Amazon gift card. I know, I know. Awesome right? The giveaway will be open for entries from today, May 14th until May 28th. That’s two weeks for you to enter and to tell your friends to enter and for them to tell their friends to enter.

Have a great week everyone! And get entering!

Kris.

Words That Fly is BACK!!!

So, my last post mentioned me being back in two weeks’ time. That was February 9th. Two months ago. Egads. So what have I been up to? Finishing my undergraduate degree! Mainly I had a ton of projects to do including a research project, which is like a mini-thesis. I wrote on the Effect of The Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis of 2008 on Delinquency Rates in Commercial Banks in Barbados. And I finished that ish! Hells yes. Then I had exams. Not fun. But I had the last one today! Words That Fly is officially (for the second time) an active book blog.

So what can you expect? Me digging up posts I had written and stored. Me writing new posts. Me reading. Me, me, me. And lots of books. And guess what. Next week is going to be pretty exciting. Why? The blog turns one! Yes, my blog, Words That Fly, will be an entire year old. While it hasn’t been active for the entire year, it’s still a big achievement.

So what do you guys think?