at least half a step out of pace with each other

202 / 350

To my eternal gratitude, I actually passed 200 pages today. For a while this seemed improbable--I lingered at 199 pages for a while, due to one character asking another a question that I didn't know the answer to. (Oops.)

And then I had an idea for one of the solstice-stories that I had been trying to remember to write, and I'm going to a grad party for two other people who'd asked for stories, and one of the prompts they gave me was perfect for a grad-party story-gift... so I wrote all three of those, and then looked back at the novel and it still said 199 pages.

Thankfully, everything had by that point worked itself out in my subconscious, so all was well.

Typo of the day: "They occupied a different word."

...also today, I finished reading Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban. Having been instructed for the past, oh, six months that I ought to, I finally obtained a copy and read it. You know those post-apocalyptic novels where the dialogue is all spelled wrong/phonetically because English has degraded, etc., etc.? This is like that, except that the narration is like that, too. Which makes it difficult to get into, but also sets up for some neat tricks with language.

I would perhaps not have picked it up if I hadn't been encouraged to (though if it'd been billed to me as "post-apocalyptic fiction by the author of Bread and Jam for Frances" I probably would have, since I liked that book as a kid), but I enjoyed it.