Writing In and About Orange County
They say you should write about what you know. I’ve done that with a few books now: Truncated: Apocalyptic and Loving It! and Westgate.
A Book by Tiffany Daniel
Tiffany McDaniel debuted with this book. I remember reading Gillian Flynn’s, Sharp Objects, and thinking how tasty her sentences were with tone for salt and story for pepper. Just resonated with me. I admired it. Tiffany McDaniel writes every sentence like a poem. Her sentences are like a rich dessert, not like a salty steak, and the story starts to go down just like a cheesecake too rich to finish… but you must.
Truncate—
We think we are exempt from natural law. The very laws that created us. But a strong mutating, invisible virus can wipe out entire populations. Or a small increase in worldwide temperature. Or mostly ourselves, if being faced with a radical change to our way of living, or even our comfort level. We are no different, I thought, even though we think we are.