Robynettely

Morning Persephone: Research and fitting stuff I have with the plot that doesn’t have a middle. I have an ending, though. My ending is awesome. The middle is non-existent. I'm finding I really have to fight the book I'm reading right now to keep it out of my characters and my worldbuilding. But that's a good thing because it's forcing me to work through problems in my head rather than replaying the easy bits. WWS Chapter 12: I deleted a ton of my previous fight choreography because it was crap, and made it much simpler. WWS Chapter 13: It was way too long, with tons of pointless dialog, but unlike some of the other chapters it seems to go in a logical direction so it might not be too difficult. Night “Wind/Water/Salt”. Posted Chapter 12. Connecting Critted 6 Got back   3 Subs -- Knitting Celtic Gang Girls of the 70’s (Rowan and me). Still half the front and collar and finishing to do. FI Corset belt. Still 1.5 inches done. Ignored. S...

LHC #20: “The House of Shattered Wings” by Aliette de Bodard. Another one I’ve heard tons about. It lived up to its hype.  “Mortality” by Christopher Hitchens. Not as depressing as I expected. The boy told me once that if he could have anyone’s career it would be CH’s… maybe without the rest of his life however.  “The Year of our War” Steph Swainston (reread). I have no idea how she did it, but I read one chapter and I was already totally obsessed with Jant. This book woke me up at night and took over my mind and infiltrated my own personal Paracosm in a totally unhealthy way. I went back and looked at my comments from the first read-through (August 2011), where I said I was unsatisfied with the ending. This time through I didn’t have that problem, but that might be helped by the fact that I have the next two in waiting on my TBR stack. Also, I seem to have misremembered some important plot points, which added to the stress of reading this book. Even the tho...