Robynettely

“The Magician King” by Lev Grossman. So I could finish the series. It’s a heist story! I liked how he handled time, POV, and backstory in this one. It was smooth. This series hit a sweet spot for me. I guess I read the same things as LG growing up. “In the Labyrinth of Drakes” by Marie Brennan. Well, I thought I might as well just finish this series off too! Ed got it for his birthday. “A Darker Shade of Magic” by V.E. Schwab. I finished the previous book on Christmas, but we weren’t giving out gifts until the 27 th , so I was left with nothing to read (we’d gone away, and my sister’s house isn’t exactly filled with the sort of thing I might choose to read). I asked the boy for an early Christmas present, but he said he’d only do a trade, and I hadn’t gotten him any suitable trading item (lesson for next year), so I asked my sister, and she went and hunted under the tree and gave me this. It was on my list. V.E.Schwab might be my new favorite author. There weren’t any unn...

1st draft More Writing Excuses!   Editing “Rabbits”. Fixed that descent into madness thing. I really like the idea of this story, but it needs so much work! “The Magician’s Ex-Apprentice”. Typed. 2nd draft: removed repetitive crap and implemented marginalia. This cut maybe 700 words out of the story which never should have been 5500 words in the first place. “Vulgar Pony”. Typed and commented on the bad intro. Seems I have learned some things. “Wind/Water/Salt”. I wanted something to put on OWW serially and this seemed the best choice, so I went over the first three chapters and posted the first one so far. You see how I have a lot of projects here? It’s a problem. I constantly switch stories in and out of “active” state, and I don’t necessarily think that for me at this point in my life this is a bad process. But. I spend far too much time looking for things, trying to figure out which is the last draft I was working on, whether I’ve printed off a new...