With O we head for one of my favorite words: offbeat. I love the weird, I love the unusual, as you can see by the titles of my non-cozy mystery books (as in, the rest of them). It’s a different way of looking at the world, a way of seeing through the surface of us as people and the world we create. It’s finding a new angle for the light to bounce off and see what lies below.
Offbeat, I think, implies a sense of humor about oddness, about being different. Sometimes it’s a conscious decision not to walk in step with everyone else, sometimes it’s because it’s just impossible to find the rhythm, but offbeat doesn’t care. It is what it is and it’s fine with it.
The offbeat, in life, can take you places you wouldn’t think to go. It takes the absurd and makes it absurder. Which I didn’t think was a real word, but spell check’s telling me is A-OK.
It’s more than fine to not fit in. Sometimes, it’s glorious.
In honor of the offbeat, check out my flash fiction collection, Better Living Through GRAVY and Other Oddities, it’s free! Or try my other offbeat novels, if you want. Here they are, because the single cover looked lonely.
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Thanks for stopping by during A to Z and I am enthralled with your very analytically designed covers.
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Aw, thank you! And I appreciate your coming by as well. 🙂
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I’m an “offbeat” type person and enjoyed your blog post today. And thank you for the free book, Isa-Lee. I look forward to reading it.
Gail visiting for AtoZ
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I’m so glad to hear that, I always enjoy coming across another offbeat soul. You are so welcome for the book, Gail, and I hope you enjoy it. Your blog today made me so hungry, I had to eat immediately 🙂 I definitely recommend it for sushi lovers.
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A soon as I read the word “offbeat”, I couldn’t help but think of “upbeat”…so my mind started to wander…good luck with the A-Z Challenge!
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Thanks so much, you too 🙂
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I’m in love with the offbeat and I always will be!
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There’s so much fun to be had there.
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Offbeat. A person who dances to the beat of their own drum. Ordinary is overrated, don’t you think?
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Always 🙂
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I never purposely try to be offbeat but it seems to happen anyway.
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Believe me, I know what you mean. Might as well embrace it.
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