Michele Hauf‘s just finishing up a challenge she and a friend are doing: rough draft their books in 10 days. Gail Dayton is doing a 20 pages a day for two weeks challenge. Anybody wanna join me in something similar? The next book up for me is HANDS OF CHANGE, the third and final book in the Old Races Negotiator trilogy. It’s supposed to come in around 125K, so no way am I going to do a draft in 10 days (12K a day for 10 days? I’d spend the…
Author: mizkit
reading
I used to like reading big fat books. The bigger and fatter the book the better, because it took me that much longer to read it. I deliberately picked up WISHSONG OF SHANNARA when I was 12 and we were driving up the California coast, because my parents told me, “Find the biggest book you can,” and it was not only big depth-wise, but it was also trade paperback, making it definitely the biggest book I could find in the SF section at the time*. Not so anymore. I’m reading…
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The intarweb tubes have lost their suction today. That’s okay. Instead of dorking around on the computer, I’m alternating between walking, reading, and watching s8 SG:1. This is a pretty good way to spend the day. :) Overall, this season is not as good as the last, er, seven. One of the things I like about SG:1 is that it’s not brilliant television, but it’s damned consistent television full of delightful character moments that rises occasionally to great and more rarely dips to adequate or bad. Sadly, s8 is running…
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tells it like it is. :) miles to Dunharrow: 42
and now, in French!
THUNDERBIRD FALLS is out this month in France–as LA MAGIE DE SIOBHÁN, which I think is a pretty funny title. :) Makes me very curious as to what COYOTE will be titled. ;)