Lane Robins (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} lanerobins) wrote,@ 2009-05-02 23:54:00 |
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So, April!
Thanks to everyone who entered the drawing: the winners have been notified and your books are on the way!
I've sort of lost the last week. One moment, it was April, the next it's May. Gallop or crawl and nothing in between.
Accomplishments this month have been sort of scattered all over the map.
Both books out in stores! Whee! Kings and Assassins, Sins & Shadows on the shelves! It's a pretty sight.
The revision on the second Sylvie book continues. Slower than I'd like. I've done the first fifteen chapters twice. Changed something, then had an epiphany, slapped myself in the head, and then went back and started again. Some revisions are just harder than others.
Roughly outlined three stories in my usual mishmash of technical description, character analysis, and random snatches of sentences. Now, it's time for the research. These are hard sf stories, not my usual kind of thing, and require new info to be fed into the brain. It's both daunting and exciting. I love writing novels, but the short stories allow me to play with styles or ideas I wouldn't normally try. Chance of utter failure is a lot more acceptable when it's 20 pages long instead of of 400.
Did manage to catch up on some books: ferocious insomnia is good for that at least.
Read:
Phantom of the Opera, which I enjoyed in a oh, you crazy turn of the century writer kinda way.
In the Dark by Brian Freeman
The Vampire of Ropraz by Jaques Chessex
Night Shift by Lilith Saintcrow
The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks by Josh Lanyon
Psycop: Partners by Jordan Castillo Price
Turn Coat by Jim Butcher
Unnatural Inquirer & Paths Not Taken by Simon Green
I'm about halfway through Patrick Rothfuss's Name of the Wind.
It was an interesting assortment. I wouldn't have picked up the Vampire of Ropraz on my own, but I read about it on fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com and it sounded interesting. It turned out to be a very slim book with a really gruesome tale packed between the covers. It left me with the same queasy sensation I got after a marathon of Forensic Files, the sense that something dangerous and predatory had just brushed by.
Psycop, bought on a whim, turned out to be a lot of fun with a delightfully voiced main character.
And Turn Coat was Harry Dresden at his wizardly best. I devoured it in one sitting.
Next month plans involve frantically finishing up the revision. Actually fleshing out the rough ideas of the stories, and starting the revision of the pet project.
Reading: Name of the Wind, obviously.
Thanks to everyone who entered the drawing: the winners have been notified and your books are on the way!
I've sort of lost the last week. One moment, it was April, the next it's May. Gallop or crawl and nothing in between.
Accomplishments this month have been sort of scattered all over the map.
Both books out in stores! Whee! Kings and Assassins, Sins & Shadows on the shelves! It's a pretty sight.
The revision on the second Sylvie book continues. Slower than I'd like. I've done the first fifteen chapters twice. Changed something, then had an epiphany, slapped myself in the head, and then went back and started again. Some revisions are just harder than others.
Roughly outlined three stories in my usual mishmash of technical description, character analysis, and random snatches of sentences. Now, it's time for the research. These are hard sf stories, not my usual kind of thing, and require new info to be fed into the brain. It's both daunting and exciting. I love writing novels, but the short stories allow me to play with styles or ideas I wouldn't normally try. Chance of utter failure is a lot more acceptable when it's 20 pages long instead of of 400.
Did manage to catch up on some books: ferocious insomnia is good for that at least.
Read:
Phantom of the Opera, which I enjoyed in a oh, you crazy turn of the century writer kinda way.
In the Dark by Brian Freeman
The Vampire of Ropraz by Jaques Chessex
Night Shift by Lilith Saintcrow
The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks by Josh Lanyon
Psycop: Partners by Jordan Castillo Price
Turn Coat by Jim Butcher
Unnatural Inquirer & Paths Not Taken by Simon Green
I'm about halfway through Patrick Rothfuss's Name of the Wind.
It was an interesting assortment. I wouldn't have picked up the Vampire of Ropraz on my own, but I read about it on fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com and it sounded interesting. It turned out to be a very slim book with a really gruesome tale packed between the covers. It left me with the same queasy sensation I got after a marathon of Forensic Files, the sense that something dangerous and predatory had just brushed by.
Psycop, bought on a whim, turned out to be a lot of fun with a delightfully voiced main character.
And Turn Coat was Harry Dresden at his wizardly best. I devoured it in one sitting.
Next month plans involve frantically finishing up the revision. Actually fleshing out the rough ideas of the stories, and starting the revision of the pet project.
Reading: Name of the Wind, obviously.
