…or maybe I should just leave retelling fairy tales to Ursula, and go fling myself in a pit instead. (When I had read only the first half of the entry, I had been going to make an appendix to *this* entry saying “It’s utterly beside the point that I want to tell grown-up versions of fairy tales, dark and creepy if I can manage it, and Ursula is going for delightful and charming and for children, and it is also utterly beside the point that I can write charming childrens’…
Author: mizkit
too. many. projects.
Somehow my year-to-end project list looks something like this: – Book Race through ~50K on Walker Papers #8 – write 3 more Old Races short stories – write 1 Walker Papers short story (if you want to read it, join the mailing list) – go to New York Comic Con – Nanowrimo a book for little boys – finish “Easy Pickings” with Faith – re-revise ANGLES to agently commentary which is, oh, let’s call it 150K in the next 4 months. Which would be totally within the bounds of reason…
THE BIG BOOST
I bought an e-reader specifically so I could read this book. Seriously, I spent about $215, plus the other twenty bucks for the books, so I could read THE BIG BOOST. This is perhaps an indication of how much I wanted to read it. I must have read Daniel Keys Moran’s THE LAST DANCER the year it came out, 1993. That means I’ve been waiting pretty close to two decades to read the next book in the series. I re-read the first three books in the series and then forbade…
Book Race
I have not been doing spectacularly well with the Book Race. I started out with one thing, it being my Plan, but then faced the reality that I would get paid if I did the other thing, which is the proposal for the 8th (8th, my god) Walker Papers, so I started on that, and immediately screwed up. Like by page fifteen. I never do that. So I spent about four days ignoring it in the hopes it would magically fix itself, which it didn’t. On Day Three I told…
fairy tales redux
Maybe four sets of four stories? GLASS, BEAST, TOWER, FLIGHT (?)? With a lineup something like: GLASS: Snow White, Cinderella, The Red Shoes, The Glass Mountain BEAST: Snow White & Rose Red, Bluebeard, Beauty and the Beast, The Wounded Lion TOWER: Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, The Princess of the Tower FLIGHT: The Children of Lir, The Nightingale, The Wild Swans, The White Dove There are So Many themes you could choose. SNOW. THRICE. WICKED, as I said, but that gets repetitive and I don’t think I’m clever enough to be…