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…
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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…
…damn, you guys are cool.
Seriously, some of the ideas of what kind of Cinderella story I would tell just *rock*. I ought to give you a list of the fairy tales I’m thinking of doing for the lil short story collection, and see what twists /you/ think I’m going to put on them, and send a copy of the collection to the people whose ideas I steal, uh, am inspired by. :) Actually, while I’m definitely going to do that at some point (not this week), I’ve got this idea in my head to…