Blogging Challenge Favorite Zs

*wipes brow*

Wow, I made it. And those of you who have been kindly making the rounds and commenting ... thank you. I thought I would end this A to Z challenge with some my personal favorite Z words.

The guy it's easy to hate.

Zeniff

from Greg Park's Earthsoul Prophecies

The guy you have some sympathy for

and kinda wish you could like, maybe.

Zane

from Well of Ascension, Book 2 of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy 

Hero

Zorro

Antonio Banderes and Anthony Hopkins were both hot as Zorro.

Scrabble

Zarf

I learned this word from my father and confunded my kids for years using it as a password.

(wonder what it is?)

When hot coffee became a fad a bazillion years ago,
they created these cup holders to keep the drinkers from burning their hands.
What's the modern equivalent to these beautiful old zarfs?

It's that outer thingy ... uh ... zarf ... that keeps you from burning your hands



And my very favorite Z?

Bronze Fir e Lizard

Zair

from Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern

Robinton, Masterharper of Pern, and his loyal friend Zair



 Anne McCaffrey is a wonderful writer. I love her use of language without sounding pretentious. She's been quite a proliffic writer as evidenced by her list of books here. I'm thrilled to hear they may finally be making the first book into a film!

Anne is obviously one of my writer idols.
What about you? Which writer(s) would you love to be like?

Blogging Challenge Y (words for Scrabble) -- and Harry Potter (there's a Y in his name)

It's been a long week, and I have a lot of stuff to do this weekend--like get my 15 page critique ready for Bootcamp at the Storymaker conference next week.

I'm glad we're nearly at the end of this blogging challenge. I certainly didn't know what I was getting myself into, but I'm glad I did it. It's been a challenge, and I've met a lot of lovely people.

I found this really fun site with words you can use when you play Scrabble. I want you to notice that the column to the left is for words that begin with Y, and the column to the right is for words that end in Y. I laughed when I immediately responded to all those to be avoided "ly" words.

Dang but this writing hobby is starting to impact my real life ... like another hobby I still cling to.

And speaking of that other hobby, check the new Deathly Hallows 2 Trailer. If you've read the books and know what happens, there are some poignant scenes in there.


All I can say is SQUEEE!