Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from March, 2021

In Process: February 2021

  Wind/Water/Salt  Chapters 29-44:  Need to take up comments and revise.    Chapter 45-46:  Finished and posted.  45 wasn't in really bad shape, but one day I added 900 words to 46 after deleting a large chunk, because it was nonsense. I had glossed over the capturing of Susannah completely.  Chapter 47-50:  Read and revised.  Persephone  (probably not its real name): I was reading that book about the Panama canal, as research for Vinterlys, when I realized how this ends. Dark.  Short Stories:   I started the month with a little of list of places that would be open for small periods because I need to get more serious about this, and I need to finish short things because I can't finish WWS because it's too damn big. And I need to prove to myself that I am serious.  I started editing two stories because I finished about one last year and that's pathetic.  I sent something from the back catalog for the first deadline because I couldn't whip the other thing into shape s

What I read: February 2021

  "Daisy Jones and the Six" by Taylor Jenkins Reid.  audio book. Recommended by someone in Toronto Life magazine. The weird thing is that it has nothing to do with Drake.  The audio book was probably a mistake, I found it too slow.  LHC #110: "Babel: around the world in 20 languages" by Gaston Doren.  This book was totally my jam.  LHC #111: "The City of Brass" by S.A. Chakraborty. Recommended in so many places, including by Ali A. Olomi, who tweets about Islamic astrology and Jinns and stuff. He'd probably also mentioned that book about the Arabian Nights that I read last month, which in turn mentioned a story about The City of Brass. So. Marie Brennan said in her capsule review of book 2 (this is book 1 of a trilogy) that it lacks a sense of humor. I'm not so sure. I found the first 10% a little tiresome, but when all the characters lie to each other so much, it got tremendously fun.  LHC # 112: "The path between the Seas: The creation of th