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What I read -- August 2013

"River of Stars” by Guy Gavriel Kay. Awesome, of course. IIt left me wandering around my office in my stupid-high heels thinking about foot binding. This is the first one of his books where I’ve really noticed how much stuff happens off-stage. It’s an epic the scope of which some people would take six or ten books to tell. He manages to fit it into one volume -- an example of “if I’d had more time I would have written it shorter.” “Heartless” by Gail Carriger. This was never going to show up just on the shelf at my local library, so I requested it. I had a hard time getting started, possibly because it had been so long since I’d read the previous ones. Once I got going, though, what fun! “Some Kind of Fairy Tale” by Graham Joyce. It was mentioned so many times in Locus, and reviewed in Salon. When I started reading, I was thinking it seemed kind of thin, and I couldn't see how it would sustain over a whole novel. However, the characters were fabulous, and the s

In process -- August 2013

First Draft “Cold Summer”. Short story. It’s terrible. “Limering”. Why yes, we’ve seen this name before. But that short story was crap, and I have an idea it’s perfect for that I might do for Nanowrimo. It’s in the notes-and-noodles stage.  Editing “Imp Face”. Some ‘real writer’ online suggested doing a draft in a different mode, things like that, to liven it up. So I set it in the same world as “wind/water/salt”, which is how it got tension, since it was just a sequence of events before. This is probably the most radical change I’ve ever done for a second draft. And then more cleaning for the third draft. Once I've typed up those changes, it might be time to take a break from this story.  Connecting ---   Circulating 1 out there. 8 rejects for 2013 so far. Knitting “Ceremonial Armour”. KF cardigan. Six rows from finishing the bodice. I haven't been working on it because I'm not sure it's long enough so I'm being pa